Legal Opinion

In re Benjamin

District Court, E.D. New York

Decided February 19, 1945No. 43794Published

1Opinion of the Court

GALSTON, District Judge.

This bankrupt was denied a discharge, Benjamin v. Jaspan, 2 Cir., 144 F.2d 58, from various debts and claims including those apparently arising out of large financial real estate transactions, because he had not taken care to- have records available whereby disposition of his property could be traced. In other words, the discharge was denied because of his failure to preserve books from which his financial situation might be ascertained.

The bankrupt now seeks, under the somewhat thinly disguised allegation of newly discovered evidence, to establish that he did not…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Benjamin v. JaspanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1944

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