Legal Opinion

In re Sullivan

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided December 19, 1932No. 110PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtAugustus N. Hand, Circuit Judge

(after stating the facts as above).

This bankrupt was in poor health, alarmed about his physical condition, disturbed-by his mother’s illness, and earning only $30 per week, from which he had to pay doctors’ and -apothecary’s bills as Well as living expenses’. His reasons for obtaining an extension of time to apply for a discharge excite sympathy, but do not furnish a legal excuse. The words of section 14a of the Bankruptcy Act (11 USCA § 32.(a) covering an extension of “time to apply for a discharge limit extensions to cases where the bankrupt is “unavoidably prevented” from filing his…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. In re MacLauchlanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1925
  2. In re LansleyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1926
  3. In re La RosaCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1926

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. In re EwingDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1934
  2. In re RoeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1937

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