Harris v. Tapp
District Court, S.D. Georgia
In Bankruptcy. In the matter of E. A. Tapp, as involuntary bankrupt. Petition of W. M. Harris and others for the adjudication. On exceptions by petitioners to report of referee. On the 29th day of November, 1915, Mrs. W. M. Harris, W. M. Harris, and Sutton & Purvis filed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy against ID.
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In Bankruptcy. In the matter of E. A. Tapp, as involuntary bankrupt. Petition of W. M. Harris and others for the adjudication. On exceptions by petitioners to report of referee. On the 29th day of November, 1915, Mrs. W. M. Harris, W. M. Harris, and Sutton & Purvis filed an involuntary petition in bankruptcy against ID. A. Tapp, alleging in brief that tbe said Tapp for the greater portion of six! months next preceding the date of the filing of the petition had his principal place of business and resided in Ocilla, Irwin county, (la., and that they had provable claims against him amounting in…
1Opinion of the CourtLambdin, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). This matter is now before me upon exceptions died by the petitioning creditors to the report of the special master, in which he found that the alleged bankrupt was chiefly engaged in farming or the tillage of the soil, and therefore not subject to adjudication. The alleged bankrupt absconded about the 5th day of November, 1915, and has not since been heard from, and the involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed against him on the 29th day of November, 1915, to which he made no *922response, and the contest here is between two sets of creditors, one claiming…
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