Case ID: f2d_21/html/0590-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAZEL, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re REINHOUDT.
    District Court, W. D. New York.
    July 21, 1927.
    Bankruptcy <@=423(i) — Judgment against bankrupt for fraudulently obtaining conveyance of property to him not dischargeable (Bankruptcy Act, § 17 [I I USCA § 35]).
    A judgment against bankrupt for fraudulently obtaining a conveyance of property to him by his mother is a liability for willful and malicious injux-y to person or property, from which, under Bankruptcy Act, § 17 (11 USCA § 35), he is not dischargeable, and issuance of a body execution against him thereon will not be enjoined.
    In Bankruptcy. In the matter of John D. Reinhoudt, bankrupt. On motion to vacate temporary stay.
    Granted.
    Wm. S. Stearns, of Fredonia, N. Y., for Walters, creditor.
    
      Clinton 0. Tarbox, of Fredonia, N. Y., for bankrupt.
   HAZEL, District Judge.

The complaint avers, among other things, that the defend-, ant defrauded his mother by fraudulently obtaining a conveyance from her to him of certain of her property. In the action tried in the state court before Judge Crosby, the averment was substantially proven, and the court found that the defendant had deceived his mother, who had implicit confidence in him, and had misled her by false representations and promises which caused her to transfer certain properties to him, and defendant was required to turn over to his mother certain moneys and a bond and mortgage, which he has unlawfully refused to do.

The record, in my opinion, discloses a debt which is not dischargeable in bankruptcy, for in its creation the defendant perpetrated a willful and malicious injury to person and property, and his act was within the exception of section IT of the Bankruptcy Act (11 USCA § 35). Accordingly, the bankrupt is not entitled to an injunction restraining plaintiff, in the state court action, from issuing a body execution and arresting the bankrupt.

The temporary restraining order is vacated.