In re Lorde

THOMAS, District Judge.

The bankrupt, D., had control of an apartment house. A tenant therein kept a dog. It bit a boy. L. was informed thereof. Thereafter the dog bit another boy. L. was sued for the injury. The complaint stated “that the defendant wrongfully and negligently suffered such dog to go at large without being properly guarded or confined.” The plaintiff recovered judgment. The question is whether D. may be discharged from such judgment, and an execution against his body stayed, or was his act a willful and malicious injury to the person within the meaning, of section 17a, subd. 2,…