Keel v. Lightbody
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Southern District of Illinois. In the matter of Charles Bitner, bankrupt. George W. Keel appeals from orders of the District Court, affirming orders of the referee granting the petition of Leslie Lightbody, trustee in bankruptcy, for the sale of real estate, and denying appellant’s petition to set the order aside.
1Opinion of the Court
MACK, Circuit Judge.
The question raised on this appeal is a very .narrow one. What rights, if any, has a trustee in bankruptcy in and to the' equity of a bankrupt in an Illinois homestead estate, concededly *49worth less than $1,000. over and above the incumbrances, at the time that the voluntary petition in bankruptcy was filed, homestead exemption having been claimed in the schedule filed by the bankrupt ?
Title to the property in question stood in the bankrupt at the date of the filing of the petition. Subsequently he and his wife conveyed the property to the mortgagee, and some months later…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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