100 F. 633 | W.D. Mo. | 1900
This case is certified to the court by the referee in bankruptcy for its action on a contempt proceeding against the bankrupt. On her examination, and that of other witnesses, before the referee, the referee found that she had failed to make a full schedule of the assets in her hands, and that she had in her possession and under her control goods, or their proceeds, of the value of §7,081.27, unaccounted for, and which she had failed to turn over to the trustee under the referee’s order, and that she*was in contempt therefor. The court has examined the testimony in this case, and has also examined the bankrupt fully in court respecting this matter. By her own statement she had on hand goods, about the 1st of July, 1899, invoiced at §1,700. Between that time and the making of her deed of assignment, about the 1st of December, 1899, she had obtained on credit from a large number of merchants, at various distant points, goods aggregating §10,000. Of these she purchased, in October, §2,649, and in November, §2,282, for none of which she had paid up to the time of her assignment and the proceeding in bankruptcy against her in the forepart of December, 1899. 'raking credit for every conceivable payment, outlay, and expenditure between July and the time of the assignment, it'would not exceed §2,300. She claims that the value of the goods by her turned over to the assignee was §2,193.50. If this were conceded to be correct, the aggregate credit to which she is entitled would amount to §4,493.-50. But the evidence shows that the cost price of the goods turned