Baxter County Bank v. Copeland
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Baxter Chancery Court; George T. Humphries, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. J. C. Copeland, an insolvent merchant of Marion County, Arkansas, on the 4th day of January, 1913, executed a general deed of assignment for the benefit of creditors, naming T. L. Bond' as assignee. The deed included all of his property except certain articles of personal property, described in the schedule attached, which he claimed as exempt.
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Appeal from Baxter Chancery Court; George T. Humphries, Chancellor; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. J. C. Copeland, an insolvent merchant of Marion County, Arkansas, on the 4th day of January, 1913, executed a general deed of assignment for the benefit of creditors, naming T. L. Bond' as assignee. The deed included all of his property except certain articles of personal property, described in the schedule attached, which he claimed as exempt. The deed specified that the assignee, after filing the inventory of the property described in the deed and making the bond required by law, should administer…
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, J.,
(after stating the facts). (1) The chancery court of Marion County had no jurisdiction to administer the estate of J. C. Copeland under the general deed of assignment. The State insolvency act of June 26, 1897,* was superseded by the bankruptcy act of Congress of July 1, 1898, insofar as they relate to the same subject-matter and affect the same persons, as was held in Hickman v. Parlin-Orendorff Co., 88 Ark. 519. See, also, Roberts Cotton Oil Co. v. Morse & Co., 97 Ark. 513.
An attack was made by appellant on this deed of assignment by its objection to the Marion Chancery Court…
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