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 IN BE KBAFT. 623 �fice of property or the continued payment of debts by one ■who is really insolvent, but cannot excuse, under the bankrupt law, the actual withdrawal and concealment of property by an insolvent debtor, under cover of a transfer suoh as this, which ■was also in fact intended to hinder, delay, and defraud his creditors. It is unnecessary to consider the further charges as to the transfer to Banvard, The specification of a fraud- ulent transfer to John A. Duff is sustained, and on thia ground the discharge must be refused. ���In re Kraft and others, Bankrupts. {District Court, S. J). NeiB York., 1880.) �1. BAKKBlTFrCT— FrATJDTH-ENT FRBFBIŒïrOB, �2. Bame — BooKs OF Account. �8. Bame— Genebai, Absignment.— The intent to have the debtor's estste wound up and distributed under a general assignment;, by an assignee named by the debtor, constitutes an intent to prevent the property from coming to the assignee in bankruptcy, and of being distributed nnder the bankrupt law. �Platt V. Preston, 19, N. B. R. 244. �In re Goldsmith, 8 N. B. R. 164. �In re Kasson, 18 N. B. R. 379. �In Bankruptcy. �Jos. S. Bosworth, Jr., for bankrupt. �Ralph E. Prime, for creditors. �Choatb, D. J. This is an application for the dîscharge pt Frederick W. Kraft, one of the bankrupts. The bankrupta constituted the firm of Beaman & Kraft, and carried on the business of leather dressers down to about the fourth day of January, 1876, when Beaman absconded and Kraft executed a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, without preferences. The estate of the copartnership was distributed under that assignment, and the remaining debts are chiefly the balances of the firm debts still unpaid. The petition of ����