In re Dicks
District Court, S.D. Georgia
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of bankruptcy proceedings against Iv. K. Dicks. On petition to review a referee’s decision refusing to order the trustee to pay to the widow and minor children a year’s support under Code Ga. 1910, ■§ 4041. On appeal, questions certified to Supreme Court by divided court.
1Opinion of the Court
SPEER, District Judge.
R. K. Dicks was adjudicated a bankrupt. He died shortly thereafter, and after his trustee had been elected and qualified, but before the property comprising his estate had been sold. His widow, Mrs. M. J. Dicks, made application to the ordinary of Richmond county (the county of her residence) to have a year’s support set aside for herself and four minor children under the provisions of section 4041 of the Code of Georgia of 1910. Appraisers were duly appointed, and reported, setting aside the sum of $2,500, to be paid out of the money or property in the hands of the…
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