In re Meier’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 6 district ·

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1. “"Tt appears without dispute that on June 0, 1900. about a week before the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, the petitioner as treasurer of the bankrupt corporation received from the National Bank of Commerce, St, Louis. $12.500 in money, the property of said corporation; and on .Tune 12th. 88.750 more as the proceeds of the sale of the remainder of its assets. The night before the petition in bankruptcy was filed, the petitioner left St. Louis, and did not return until the fall of the year following. Upon the hearing before the referee he not only failed to account for the money so received by him, but refused to answer all qustions asked him relative to its disposition upon the ground, as stated by him. ‘that his answers might tend to incriminate him.’ His counsel asked of him but one question. which is: ‘Have you any property in your possession of the Meier China & Glass Company?’ He answered, ‘No, sir.’ This is the only showing he has seen fit to make of the disposition of over $29,000 in money of the bankrupt corporation so received by him as its treasurer within a few days prior to its bankruptcy. That the petitioner received the money of the corporation as stated is not disputed, and the only thing said in support of the petition to revise is that there is no presumption that the petitioner had this money or any part of it hi his possession when the order requiring him to turn over $12,500 thereof to the trustee was made. But. the settled rule is that, when properly”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Richards