Gilpin v. Merchants' Nat. Bank

Citations

• 165 F. 607
• 20 L.R.A.N.S. 1023
• 1908 U.S. App. LEXIS 4788
• 20 L.R.A (N.S.) 1023

Syllabus

<p>Bankruptcy (§ 407*) — Discharge—Grounds por Refusal — Making “False” Statement.</p> <p>The word “false” as used in Bankr. Act July 1, 1898, c. 541, § 14b, 30 Stat. 550 (XJ. S. Com¡). St. 190Í, p. 3427), as amended in 4003 (Act Feb. 5, 1903, e. 487, § 4, 32 Stat. 797 [U. S. Comp. St. Snpp. 1907, p. 1020]), which makes it a ground for denying a discharge to a bankrupt that he has “obtained property on credit from any person upon a materially false statement in writing made to such person for the purpose of obtaining such property on credit,” means more than merely erroneous or untrue, being used in its primary legal sense as importing an intention to deceive, and such a statement, in order to constitute a bar to a discharge, must have been knowingly and intentionally untrue.</p> <p>TEd. Note. — Eor other cases, see Bankruptcy, Cent. Dig. § 7G0; Dee. Dig. § 407.*</p> <p>Eor other definitions, see Words and Phrases, vol. 3, pp. 2034, 2055.]</p>