In re F. Dobert & Son
District Court, W.D. Texas
In Bankruptcy. Mrs. Albertina Dobert, for herself and children, has filed a petition to review the order of the referee, declining to set aside to them, as the widow and children of Frank Dobert, deceased, certain statutory allowances.
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In Bankruptcy. Mrs. Albertina Dobert, for herself and children, has filed a petition to review the order of the referee, declining to set aside to them, as the widow and children of Frank Dobert, deceased, certain statutory allowances. The following opinion of the referee, Franz Fiset, Esquire, embodies the material facts of the case: “An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed on February 3, 1908, against the firm of F. Dobert & Son, and against Frank Dobert and Joseph Dobert, its members, as individuals. On February 5th the said partnership, and its members as individuals, filed a…
1Opinion of the CourtMaxey, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). It appears from the record that, at the death of Frank Dobert, neither he nor Joseph Dobert had an individual estate. The assets of the partnership are wholly insufficient to pay partnership debts. Whether, under such circumstances, the statutory allowances claimed by the widow and children of Frank Dobert may be set apart to them from the assets of the firm of F. Dobert & Son, will depend upon a proper construction of the state statutes, providing for the administration of estates of deceased persons. In a matter of this kind the laws of the state furnish *754t…
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