In re Wells
District Court, W.D. Arkansas
In Bankruptcy. L. & A. Scharffs sold to the bankrupt certain liquors, which, when Wells was adjudged a bankrupt, remained in his stock in unbroken packages, and unpaid for. Wells claimed this liquor as exempt. The trustee set it apart to him as a part of his exemptions.
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In Bankruptcy. L. & A. Scharffs sold to the bankrupt certain liquors, which, when Wells was adjudged a bankrupt, remained in his stock in unbroken packages, and unpaid for. Wells claimed this liquor as exempt. The trustee set it apart to him as a part of his exemptions. L. & A. Scharff and two other creditors of the bankrupt excepted to the action of the trustee in that behalf on two grounds: (1) Because the purchase money for the exempted property had not been paid; (2) because the bankrupt has not made a full, complete, and fair disclosure, of the property belonging to his said estate, as…
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, District Judge.
Chapter 3, § 6, Bankr. Law 1898, is as follows:
“This act shall not affect the allowance to bankrupts of the exemptions which are prescribed by the state laws in force at the time of the filing of the *763petition in the state wherein they have had their domicile for the six months or the greater portion thereof immediately preceding the filing of the petition.”
Article 9, §§ 1, 2, of the state constitution of 1874 are as follows:
“Section 1. The personal property of any resident of this state who Is not married or the head of a family, In specific articles to be selected by…
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