In re Kaplan Bros.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; J. Whitaker Thompson, Judge. In the matter of Kaplan Bros., bankrupt. To review an order adjudging Charles Kaplan and another guilty of contempt, and sentencing them to imprisonment, they bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
J. B. McPPIERSON, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs in error, Charles Kaplan and Max Kaplan, were sentenced to imprisonment as a punishment for contempt of court. They were members of the bankrupt firm of Kaplan Bros, (no proceeding was taken against the third partner), and were called before the referee on May 13, 1913, for examination at the first meeting of creditors. Their answers and demeanor were so unsatisfactory that the referee (Joseph Mellors, Esq.) officially and of his own motion certified as follows:
“That in the course of the proceedings in this cause the said bankrupts were called…
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