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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re CURLE.
    (District Court, N. D. California, First Division.
    October 3, 1914.)
    No. 7809.
    1. Bankruptcy (§ 415) — Discharge — Hearing — Attendance by Bankrupt.
    Bankr. Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, •§ 7, 30 Stat. 548 (U. S. Comp. St. 1913, § 9591), providing that a bankrupt shall attend the hearing on his application for a discharge, if filed, requires the bankrupt to attend such hearing, though he may have removed from the district.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Bankruptcy, Cent. Dig. §§ 698-708, 719, 723, 724, 726, 728; Dec. Dig. § 415.*]
    2. Bankruptcy (§ 415*) — Application for Discharge — Hearing—Attendance by Bankrupt.
    Bankr. Act 1898, § 7, providing that a bankrupt shall not be required to attend for examination at a place more than 150 miles from bis home or place of business, does not apply to a hearing on an application for the bankrupt’s discharge, so as to excuse him from attending the hearing on such application; he having removed from the district pending the proceedings.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Bankruptcy, Cent. Dig. ‘§§ 698-708, 719, 723, 724, 726, 728; Dee. Dig. § 415.*]
    In Bankruptcy. In the matter of bankruptcy proceedings of R. S. Curie.
    D. E. von Schenck, for petitioners.
    Houghton & Houghton, of San Francisco, Cal., opposed.
    
      
      For other cases see sapae topic & § number in Dec, & Am. Digs. 1907 to date, & Rep'r Indexes
    
   DOOEING, District Judge.

The question as to whether or not a bankrupt is required to attend the hearing upon his application for a discharge having been presented to the court by the referee herein, it is the judgment of the court that the provisions of section 7 of the Bankruptcy Act . require, such attendance, and that the bankrupt may not avoid such attendance by removing from the district.

It is also the opinion of the court that, even if the provision that a bankrupt may not be required to attend at a place more than 150 miles from his home or place of business did apply to a hearing upon an application for discharge, the bankrupt could not avail himself thereof, if pending the bankruptcy proceedings he removed from the district.