In re Crenshaw’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions

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1. ““But the amended petition does affirmatively allege that respondent was engaged in trade as a merchant, and that the debts incurred by him, and for the collection of which this proceeding in bankruptcy was instituted, were incurred while engaged in the occupation of a merchant in trade, and that the-property alleged to have been transferred and concealed was property acquired and owned by him as such merchant. He may have subsequently become a wage earner; but it has been said that the exemption from involuntary proceedings in favor of wage earners is not intended as a means of escape-for insolvents whose property was acquired and whose debts were incurred in other occupations recently engaged in. In re Luckhardt (D. C.) 4 Am. Bankr. Rep. 307, 101 Fed. 809 ; In re Mackey (D. C.) 6 Am. Bankr. Rep. 577, 110 Fed. 361 . If the original petition was defective in the respect referred to, such defect has been cured by the amendment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Burgin