In re Wardlaw
District Court, N.D. Georgia
In the matter of W. E. Wardlaw, bankrupt. On petition to renew an order of the referee directing sale of the bankrupt’s reversionary-interest in homestead property.
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAN, District Judge.
While the Constitution of Georgia of 1868 was still in force, there was set apart to the bankrupt, the head of a family, as an exemption under the constitutional provision with reference thereto, a homestead in certain lands in Chattahoochee county, Ga., where he then resided. Some years later, to wit, in 1885, he applied to the judge of the superior court of Chattahoochee county for an order to sell the lands embraced in the homestead and situated in Chattahoochee county for reinvestment in lands in Mus-cogee county, under the statute of Georgia. An order was granted…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Lockwood v. Exchange BankSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- In re BassU.S. Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia · 1877
- Jolly v. LoftonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1878
- Taylor v. JamesSupreme Court of Georgia · 1899
- Heard v. DownerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1873
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