Legal Opinion
In re Petersen
District Court, D. Nevada
Decided August 25, 1917PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of Emil Petersen, bankrupt. On petition for review of an order of the referee refusing to allow a preferred claim.
1Opinion of the Court
FARRINGTON, District Judge.
The referee in bankruptcy, having refused to allow as preferred the claim of Emma Petersen, she has filed a petition for review. The questions certified by the referee are : First, whether the mortgage contains a proper description; and, second, whether fraud is shown.
The description of the property, as it appears in the chattel mortgage, is as follows:
“Seventeen (17) head of work stock, seventeen (17) harnesses therefor, six (6) driving horses, two (2) buggies, one (1) spring wagon, one (1) lot of binding chains and stretchers, one (1) lot of blacksmith tools, one…
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