Pickett v. McGavick

PARKER, District Judge.

This is a suit brought by the plaintiff, as assignee in bankruptcy of the defendant, against the defendant, to set aside his discharge as a bankrupt, and recover from him a large amount of diamonds, alleged by the plaintiff to be of the value of five thousand dollars. Plaintiff alleges that on the 19th day of December, 1868, defendant, McGavick, filed his petition in the bankrupt court for the Eastern district ■of Arkansas, sitting at Little Rock; that he was duly declared a bankrupt, and on the 14th day of June, 1S71, received his discharge as such bankrupt; that the…