Legal Opinion

In re Adams

District Court, D. Montana

Decided February 4, 1933No. 4804PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BOURQUIN, District Judge.

It is more than twelve and near thirteen months since the bankrupt was so adjudicated, and now she first presents application for discharge.

The statute (Bankr. Act § 14a, 11 U.S.C.A. § 32(a) provides that the application may be filed “after the expiration of one month and within twelve months, subsequent” to adjudication; but not thereafter unless “it shall be made to appear to the judge that the bankrupt was unavoidably prevented from filing it within such time,” whereupon “it may be filed within but not after the expiration of the next six months.”

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2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. In Re TaylorCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1927
  2. In re GoldsteinDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1930
  3. In re BalzerDistrict Court, S.D. California · 1926

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. In re SchaeferCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1935
  2. In re BerghorstDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1938
  3. In re Wieck & KlineDistrict Court, D. Montana · 1938
  4. Cohen v. KellerCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1940

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