In re Towne
District Court, D. Massachusetts
In Bankruptcy. On review of decision of referee rejecting proof of claim.
1Opinion of the Court
LOWELL, District Judge.
A creditor seeks to prove a debt after the expiration of a year from the filing of the petition. Objection thereto is made by the bankrupt alone. The contention of the peti*314tioning creditor is this: That the bankrupt, by a false and fraudulent statement in his schedule, led the creditor to believe that there was practically no estate for distribution, so that the creditor omitted to prove his debt; that thereafter the bankrupt turned over to his trustee the property fraudulently misdescribed in his schedule, with the intention that the property which he concealed, after…
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