Beach v. Macon Grocery Co.

In this case the petitioner asks a review of the proceedings in the District Court overruling a demurrer which raised the question whether in the petition of creditors to adjudicate a natural person an-involuntary bankrupt it is necessary to specifically allege that the alleged bankrupt is not a wage earner nor a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil. The petition in the case is in the form prescribed in general orders of the Supreme Court, and besides contains averments consistent with the alleged bankrupt being a merchant, and not chiefly engaged in tilling the soil,…