Case ID: f-cas_3/html/1001-02.html
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Author: {"author": "BLATCHFORD, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 1,697.
    In re BOUND.
    [4 N. B. R. (1871) 510 (Quarto, 164).]
    
    District Court, S. D. New York.
    Bankruptcy — Discharge—Failure to Keep Froper Books op Account.
    Where it appears from the evidence that a bankrupt has failed to keep proper books of account, the case is one in which, under [Act 1867 (14 Stat. 531)] section 29, a discharge cannot be granted.
    [In bankruptcy.]
    S. J. Crooks, for bankrupt.
    J. F. Roberts, for creditor.
    
      
       [Reprinted by permission.]
    
   BLATCHFORD, District Judge.

The first specification, in so far as it charges that since the passing of the bankrupt act, the bankrupt being a tradesman within the meaning thereof, has not kept proper books of account in his business, is sustained by the evidence, and a discharge is refused on the ground that such allegation is equivalent to an allegation that the bankrupt being a tradesman has not, subsequently to the passage of said act, kept proper books of account, and that the case is, therefore, one in which, under section 29, a discharge cannot be granted.