In re Beerman

NEWMAN, District Judge.

The report of the refere'e in this case as to the matter now in hearing is on the intervention filed by F. M. Powers, setting up and’asking to have enforced a mortgage for $200 on the stock of goods of the bankrupt. The question is whether or not this mortgage is void under the bankruptcy act. The facts show that the bankrupt, on the 15th day of June, 1901, owed J. J. & J. E. Maddox, wholesale merchants, $192; that at that time the agent of J. J. & J. E. Maddox procured Powers to lend to Beer-man, the bankrupt, the sum of $192, taking his note and a mortgage on his…