Court Opinion

ID: 8788287
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 13:42:09.728425+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:03:12.006253
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J. B. McPHERSON, Circuit Judge.
Judge Thompson, of this district, has recently decided, in Re Hockman, 205 Fed. 330, that the amendment of June 25, 1910 (36 Stat. 839, c. 412, § 6 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1911, p. 1496]) to sectiou 14, subd. “b” (Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, 30 Stat. 550 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3427]), providing:
“ * * * That a trustee shall not interpose objections to a bankrupt’s discharge until he shall be authorized so to do at a meeting of creditors called for that purpose”
—is satisfied if the authority be given at a meeting called by the referee, and that the District Judge is not required himself to issue the call and hold the meeting, or specially to authorize such call and meeting. I not only follow this ruling, but I agree with it, and therefore overrule the bankrupt’s first objection to the specifications filed by the trustee.
The remaining objections attack all the specifications as insufficient; but I cannot assent to the bankrupt’s argument, except as to the fourth. This, I think, should be made more definite, especially because the trustee is evidently in possession of information that will probably *400enable him to be more specific — at least within reasonable limits. He may amend the fourth specification within five days, but in default of such amendment the clerk will mark it dismissed.
The bankrupt's objections to the first three specifications are dismissed; the objections to the fourth are sustained, with leave to amend.