In re Mayer’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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1. ““1. A judgment, in an action in a state court to recover a preferential payment to which the bankrupt was not a party, does not operate as an estoppel or a bar against the bankrupt seeking a discharge. * * * “3. A special master directed to take proof and make a report on exceptions to a bankrupt’s petition for discharge must exercise an independent judgment on the facts brought before him, and should not follow the judgment of another tribunal on facts brought before it, though the identical question may have been tried out before such tribunal on substantially the same facts.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Hillebrand