Demartin
Demartin v. Demartin
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Belcher, J.
This is an appeal from an order granting an insolvent debtor a discharge from his debts.
On the twenty-second day of October, 1887, the respondent, Louis Demartin, commenced proceedings in voluntary insolvency, and was adjudged to be an insolvent debtor. On the 4th of February, following, he applied to the court for a discharge from his debts, and the proper notice was given to his creditors to appear and show cause why a discharge should not be granted. The appellants, two of the creditors, appeared and opposed a discharge.
As grounds of opposition they specified,— 1. That the respondent had sworn falsely in the affidavit annexed to his petition, schedule, and inventory in this, that he stated, in the schedule of his debts and liabilities, his indebtedness to the appellants to be $4,588.40, when in fact it was $5,588.40; and in this, that he wholly omitted from the inventory of his' assets an indebtedness of $172.23 then due him from certain parties in the city of San Francisco. 2. That respondent had been guilty of fraud, contrary to the true intent of the Insolvent *78 Act, in this, that on the twenty-ninth day of September, 1887, he filed and caused to be recorded a…