In re MacLauchlan

(after stating the facts as above).

Bankruptcy Act, § 14a (Comp. St. § 9598), provides that a bankrupt within “the next twelve months subsequent” to' adjudication may apply for a discharge, and then continues thus:

“If it shall he made to appear to the judge that the bankrupt was unavoidably prevented from filing it [i. e., his petition for discharge] within such time [i. e., said 'next twelve months’], it may be filed within, but not after, the expiration of the next six months.”

The question at bar is whether this bankrupt brought himself within the provisions of this section of the act,…