In re A. F. Hardie & Co.
District Court, W.D. Texas
In Bankruptcy. On application for discharge. On May 15, 1905, the firm of A. F. Hardie & Co. and the individual members thereof, to wit, Alva Finley Hardie, his son, James Mallory Hardie, and Max Kaliski, were, upon the petition of creditors, adjudged bankrupt. An application for discharge was filed by the members of the firm on the 27th of October following. Opposition to the discharge having been filed by the Swofford Bros.
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In Bankruptcy. On application for discharge. On May 15, 1905, the firm of A. F. Hardie & Co. and the individual members thereof, to wit, Alva Finley Hardie, his son, James Mallory Hardie, and Max Kaliski, were, upon the petition of creditors, adjudged bankrupt. An application for discharge was filed by the members of the firm on the 27th of October following. Opposition to the discharge having been filed by the Swofford Bros. Dry Goods Company, two of the partners, A. F. Hardie and Kaliski withdrew their prayer for discharge, leaving the application to stand in behalf of J. M. Hardie alone.…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxey, District Judge
(after stating the facts). Upon the subject of the discharge of a bankrupt it is provided, among other things, by the fourteenth section of the bankruptcy act (Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 550 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3427]), as amended by the act of Congress approved February 5, 1903 (32 Stat. 797, c. 487 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp..l905_, p. 684]), as follows:
“The judge shall hear the application for a discharge, and such proofs and pleas as may be made in opposition thereto by parties in interest, at such time as will give parties in interest a reasonable opportunity to be fully heard,…
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