Sherwood v. Kitcher

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by Kitcher, the debt- or, from an order in bankruptcy, dismissing his petition under section 75 of the Bankruptcy Act, as amended (11 U.S.C.A. § 203) on motion of a mortgagee. The only question is whether the petitioner was a “farmer,” within the meaning of subdivision (r), as amended (11 U.S.C.A. § 203 (r). Kitcher lived upon a farm of one hundred and seventeen acres which he owned, twenty-five acres of which he worked, and from which he had at least partially supported himself until the depression. When farm products fell so low that he could no…