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it and ask a discharge, it is adjudged that there has been unreasonable delay upon the part of the bankrupt in present· ing his cause and asking for a discharge, and upon motion of Jones, Berry, and other creditors, it is now ordered that said creditors, and all others who have proven their debts against said bankrupt, have leave to prosecute any and all suits in law or equity they or either of them could have done had said Kelly never been adjudged a bankrupt. It further is ordered that said Jones and Berry, petitioning creditors herein, recover of said Caleb Kelly their costs expended herein, and may have execution therefor.
IN
THE MATTER OF MARSHALL,
Bankrupt.
(District (Jourt, D. Kentucky. June, 1880.)
In Bankruptcy. BARR, D. J. This case is submitted on the question of an· nulling the discharge granted bankrupt December 17, 1879. The bankrupt filed his petition to be adjudged a bankrupt in January, 1876, and he was so adjudged on the - - day of January, 1876. He reported no assets except such as were afterwards set apart to him. He reported a list of creditors, ten (10) in number, amounting to $2,455. Five of these creditors proved their debts, which amounted in the aggregate to over $1,600, and S. E. Jones was elected assignee on the eighth of February, 1876, and accepted., Jones, on the nineteenth of April, 1879, filed his petition, setting out the fact that no assets had been received by him, and that the bankrupt had not applied for his discharge, and asking to be discharged from his trust. This was done. After this, on
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the twentieth of November, 1879, William Sisco proved a debt against the bankrupt, evidenced by a note dated August 21, 1858, and on the same day J. B. Marshall, the father of the bankrupt, proved his two debts the bankrupt. These two then consented in writing to the dil'lcharge of the bankrupt. These debts were proven after the day set for final hearing upon the petition of the bankrupt for a discharge, which was March 23, 1877. The register reported to the court that one-fourth in number of the creditors, and onethird in value of the debts proven, had consented to the bankrupt's discharge, and the discharge was granted December 17, 1879. J. M. Robinson & Co., creditors of the bankrupt, filed, January 22, 1880, a petition to amend said discharge, and the specifications were subsequently amended. The bankrupt has appeared and responded, and the evidence has been heard. The counsel for the petitioning creditors insist: First. That when the assignee settled his accounts, and resigned, the case was closed; that that was the final disposition of the cause within the meaning of section 5108, and proof taken and consent given after that time is inadmissible. See In re Brightmore, 15 N. B. R. 214. Second. That the assent must be filed at or before the day for hearing application for discharge. Third. That the debt of William Sisco, one of the two consenting creditors, was contracted before January 1,1867, and should not have been considered in the question of discharge. Fowrth. That the father of the bankrupt procured the consent of William Sisco to the discharge by a promise to pay the debt. It is only necessary to consider the fourth objection. Wil· liam Sisco stated that J. B. Marshall agreed with him, before he proved his debt, that if he would prove, and consent to his son's discharge, he would pay him the debt, and the son subsequently brought the money for bis father and paid bim the debt. The bankrupt statod that he had nothing to do with his father's agreement, and did not know of it until after it was made. 'He says that it was his father's money with which he paid William Sisco. This, I think, brings this casa within section 5110. The eighth subsection of section 5100 says: "No discharge shall be granted, or, if granted, shall
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be valid, in any of the following cases: * * * Eighth, if the bankrupt, or any person in his behalf has procured the assent of any creditor to the discharge, or influenced the by a action of any creditor, at any stage of the pecuniary consideration or obligation." It may be that the bankrupt did not know of the agreement at the time it was made, but it was done in his behalf; not by a stranger, but his father, for whom he was then doing business. I think petitioning creditors are entitled, under the provisions of section 5120, to have the discharge annulled. It will be so ordered.
WHITE and others v. LEE. (Circuit Court, D. Massachusetts.
July 24, 1880.)
In Equity. Demurrer to Bill. LOWELL, C. J. The complainants, citizens of lllinois, are the owners of two patents for an improvement in boots and shoes, and they bring this bill against the defendant, a citizen of Massachusetts, for an injunction, and an account of profits and damages, alleging an infringement of one of the patents. The bill alleges that the defendant took a license from the plaintiffs, a copy of which is annexed to the bill, to use said inventions during the continuance of the patents, and any extension or renewal thereof, on condition of keeping the agreements ()n his part, which were, to render accounts, pay and permit an inspection of his books; and, if he made default, the licensors might, at their option, cancel the license as thereafter provided. The mode or can· cellation provided by the agreement is: