In re Rollins Boot Shop

SIBLEY, District Judge.

The partners, Rollins and Jordan, each, in their bankruptcy schedules, claimed a $1,600 homestead under the Georgia Constitution, to be set apart partly in specific personal property, and the remainder to be cash from the partnership stock of merchandise. The stock had been inventoried by the trustee at its cost price, amounting to about $5,800; this also being the value placed on it in the bankruptcy schedule. It was appraised for sale, however, at only $1,700. The trustee construed these claims for an exemption of cash as a consent by the bankrupt to the sale of the…