Case Name: In re HARK et al.
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1905-12-27
Citations: 142 F. 279
Docket Number: No. 2,065
Parties: In re HARK et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 142
Pages: 279–279

Head Matter:
In re HARK et al.
(District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.
December 27, 1905.)
No. 2,065.
Bankruptcy — Involuntary Proceedings — Amendment of Petition.
A petition, charging as an act of bankruptcy a transfer of property with intent to hinder, delay, and defraud creditors, may properly be permitted to be amended to charge that the transfer was made to prefer certain creditors, where such fact is developed on the hearing.
[Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see vol. 6, Cent. Dig. Bankruptcy, § 128.]
In Bankruptcy. On application for leave to amend petition.
See 135 Fed. 603.
Harry S. Mesirov and J. Howard Reber, for petitioners.
Wessel & Aarons, for alleged bankrupts.

Opinion:
HOLLAND, District Judge.
We think, in the interest of justice in this case, the petition filed on the 28th day of August, 1905, asking permission to amend the original petition in bankruptcy against the above-alleged .bankrupts, in accordance with the requests contained in the amending petition, should be allowed, for the reason that the act of bankruptcy charged in the original petition is a concealment and transfer of property with intent to hinder, delay, and defraud creditors, and the amended petition also alleges a transfer of property, but for a different reason, to wit, with intent to prefer certain creditors. The petitioners were unable to secure this information until they discovered it from the evidence adduced upon the trial of this case on June 13, 1905. A new trial having been granted on August 10, 1905, the petitioners filed their petition for amendment August 28, 1905.
The amendments are allowed.