In Re Standard Coal Mining & Converters Corporation, Bankrupt. Brock v. Solomon

DUFFY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court adjudging Ralph M. Brock and Henry E. Becker guilty of willful contempt of court for failure to obey a turnover order issued by the referee in bankruptcy. Both Brock and Becker were ordered committed to jail until each shall have purged himself of said contempt by making a certain specified payment to the trustee in bankruptcy.

Ralph M. Brock was the president and Henry E. Becker the vice president of Standard Coal Mining and Converters Corporation, an Illinois corporation, and hereinafter referred to as “Standard.”…