In re T. C. Burnett & Co.
District Court, E.D. Tennessee
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of bankruptcy proceedings of T. C. Burnett & Co. The referee denied the bankrupt’s application to set aside his interest in a wheat crop as an exemption, and he filed a petition for review.
1Opinion of the Court
SANFORD, District Judge.
An involuntary petition in. bankruptcy was filed against the defendant T. C. Burnett, individually and trading under the name of T. C. Burnett & Co., on April 27, 1912, and he was adjudged a bankrupt thereunder- on May 15, 1912. He subsequently filed his schedules in which he claimed as exempt a one-half undivided interest in a growing wheat crop on certain lands. The trustee in bankruptcy having refused to set aside this interest in the wheat crop as an exemption, and the bankrupt having excepted to his action, the Referee in Bankruptcy entered an order sustaining the…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Smalley v. LaugenourSupreme Court of the United States · 1905
- Edwards v. ThompsonTennessee Supreme Court · 1887
- In re MooreDistrict Court, E.D. Tennessee · 1909
- Taylor v. WinnieSupreme Court of Kansas · 1898
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