In re Bleyer
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Petition to Revise Order of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. On appeal from an order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (210 Fed. 391) overruling the exceptions filed to the specifications of objection by the First National Bank of Easton, Pa., to the bankrupt’s discharge.
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, Circuit Judge.
The concrete question here is whether the false written statement as to the property of a corporation of which the bankrupt was president, made to a bank for the purpose of obtaining money, is within the statute (section 14b (3) of the Bankruptcy Act) which refuses a discharge to a bankrupt if he has obtained money upon a materially false statement in writing.
In the present case the exceptions to the specifications of the bank in opposition to the discharge constitute, in effect, a demurrer and all the allegations of the bank’s objection must, therefore, be taken as…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- In re Dresser & Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1905
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