In re Burgin

GRUBB, District Judge.

The exceptions to the report of the special master are based upon the proposition that the alleged bankrupt, at the time of the commission of the act of bankruptcy, and at the time of the filing of the petition of bankruptcy, was chiefly engaged in fanning, and for that reason exempt from being adjudicated a bankrupt. It may be conceded that the burden of proving that the bankrupt was not a person chiefly engaged in farming was upon the petitioning creditors. In the view taken by the court, this would seem to be or little consequence, as the only evidence submitted was…