In re Nicholson

WYCHE, District Judge.

An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed against Margaret Miller Nicholson, who admitted certain acts of bankruptcy, but defended upon the ground that at the time of the commission of said acts she was a “farmer” within the definition of the Chandler Act of 1938, 11 U.S.C.A. § 1(17). It is admitted by counsel that this raises the only issue in the case. The case came on for trial before me and a jury. At the conclusion of the evidence for the petitioners both parties made motions for directed verdicts and agreed that the question was one of law and that the case…