Gantt v. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
On Petition to Superintend and Revise, in Matter of Law, Proceedings of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina, at Charleston, in Bankruptcy; Henry A. Middleton Smith, Judge. Proceeding by J. C. Miller, as trustee in bankruptcy of C. A. Baker and W. A. Gantt, individually and as copartners doing business as the People’s Drug Company, for the sale of land.
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On Petition to Superintend and Revise, in Matter of Law, Proceedings of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of South Carolina, at Charleston, in Bankruptcy; Henry A. Middleton Smith, Judge. Proceeding by J. C. Miller, as trustee in bankruptcy of C. A. Baker and W. A. Gantt, individually and as copartners doing business as the People’s Drug Company, for the sale of land. On a petition by the purchaser, an order was made adverse to Alice Gantt, wife of one of the bankrupts, and she brings a petition against the trustee and Iredell Jones and others to superintend and…
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
In October, 1919, C. A. Baker and W. A. Gantt were adjudged bankrupts, as copartners and individuals. Gantt owned a tract of 371 acres of land, known as “Scyamore Farm,” on which were several outstanding mortgages executed by him. On each of these mortgages his wife, Alice Gantt, had renounced her dower.
Under a petition filed by the trustee, with due notice to the mortgagees, the court ordered the land sold free of the liens of the mortgages. The petitioner, Alice Gantt, wife of the mortgagor, gave notice at the sale of her claim of dower. Under a petition filed by the…
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