Case Name: In re BOUND
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1876
Citations: 3 F. Cas. 1001
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re BOUND.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 3
Pages: 1001–1002

Head Matter:
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.]

Opinion:
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.