Erickson v. Beardall

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Plaintiff Irene Erickson Robison (formerly Beardall) sought in this proceeding to enforce certain oblig'ations awarded in her favor and against her former husband, defendant Oran L. Beardall under a divorce decree. The latter contended that they have been discharged in bankruptcy. But the court found in accordance with the plaintiff’s contention, that they were excepted from discharge by Sec. 17(a) of the Bankruptcy Act which provides in pertinent part:

A discharge in bankruptcy shall release a bankrupt from all of his provable debts * * * except such as * * * (2) for…