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107 F.2d 760

Docket No. 63.

In re Ernst

Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Nov. 6, 1939.

Second Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1939-11-06

2 counsel of record

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“It is of no moment that one of the loans was paid before bankruptcy. Josephs v. Powell & Campbell, 2 Cir., 213 F. 627; nor that the bank is not opposing the discharge; In re Weinstein, D. C., 34 F.2d 964; nor that the bankrupt did not himself receive the proceeds of the loans. In re Dresser & Co., D.C., 144 F. 318. Affirmed, 2 Cir., 145 F. 1021.”

quoted by 1 later decision, including Cunningham v. Elco Distributors, Inc.

Relies on In re Slocum · In re Dresser & Co. · In re Applebaum

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Decided 1939-11-06

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Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 1970

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¶1Goddard & Leighton, of New York City (David Q. Cohen, of New York City, of counsel and on the brief), for appellant.

¶2Duberstein & Schwartz, of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Max Schwartz and Samuel C. Duberstein, both of Brooklyn, N. Y., on the brief), for bankrupt-appellee.

¶3Before SWAN, CHASE, and CLARK, Circuit Judges.

¶4CHASE, Circuit Judge.

¶5The appellant is a creditor who filed' specifications of objection to the granting of an application made by the bankrupt for a discharge.

¶6The specifications alleged, and the evidence in support proved, that the bankrupt in May, 1938, made a materially false statement in writing showing his financial' condition to the National City Bank in New York for the purpose of obtaining money on credit. He did this in a co-maker’s application to the bank to induce it to-make a loan of which William Schwartz” had the proceeds. He made another such comaker’s application in January, 1938, to the-same bank for the purpose of obtaining a loan the proceeds of which were to go to-one Joseph Frank. This statement was also false in material respects. Both loans, were made. His voluntary petition in. bankruptcy was filed July 12, 1938, when the Schwartz loan was fully paid and the-Frank loan was not yet due.

¶7There was evidence that the bank made-some investigation of its own before each, loan was made and both the referee and the judge felt that this precluded reliance upon, the bankrupt’s false statements. The discharge was accordingly granted.

¶8Sec. 14, sub. b(3), of the Bankruptcy Act (Chandler Act 14, sub. c.(3), 11 U.S.C. A. § 32, sub. b(3) is a bar to the bankrupt’s-discharge under the circumstances shown. There was a misconception below of the evidentiary effect of the testimony and the-legal significance of the facts proved. The-evidence was both undisputed and inherently probable that the bank relied both on. the statements made by the bankrupt and on its own investigations in making the loans which apparently did not cover all the representations made in the statements. It was amply shown that it would not have-made the loans unless the statements had been given to it as a basis for its action.-. Reliance upon the false statements in connection with the other information obtain*761ed was enough. Mullen v. First Nat. Bank, 10 Cir., 57 F.2d 711; Matter of Applebaum, 2 Cir., 11 F.2d 685.

¶9Concurrent findings of fact by the referee and the judge will ordinarily be accepted on appeal. In re Euclid Doan Co., 6 Cir., 104 F.2d 712; In re Slocum, 2 Cir., 22 F.2d 282. But not where a mistake is clearly shown. In re Hoffman, 7 Cir., 82 F.2d 58; In re Gordon & Gelberg, 2 Cir., 69 F.2d 81; In re Byrd Coal Co., 2 Cir., 83 F.2d 190.

¶10It is of no moment that one of the loans was paid before bankruptcy. Josephs v. Powell & Campbell, 2 Cir., 213 F. 627; nor that the bank is not opposing the discharge; In re Weinstein, D.C., 34 F.2d 964; nor that the bankrupt did not himself receive the proceeds of the loans. In re Dresser & Co., D.C., 144 F. 318. Affirmed, 2 Cir., 145 F. 1021.

¶11Order reversed.

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