Legal Opinion
In re Chotiner
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided September 17, 1914No. 6440PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of A. H. Chotiner, trading as A. H. Chotiner & Co., bankrupt. On review of order of referee.
1Opinion of the Court
ORR, District Judge.
[1] The referee in bankruptcy has certified to the court the following question, viz.:
“Whether, on the sale of real estate by the trustee under the order of the bankruptcy court, free and discharged of all liens, the title of the bankrupt passed to the purchaser free and discharged of any right of dower in the wife .of the bankrupt; the bankrupt and his wife both being alive at the time of said sale.”
The question is one of great importance which has never been decided by the Court of Appeals of this circuit or by the Supreme Court, so far as I have been advised. It is with…
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