In re McFrancis’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““As indicated, the bankrupts have claimed as exempt almost everything in the way of furniture, fixtures and equipment in the office and plant necessary or useful to the operation of an electroplating business of substantial proportions. The obvious result of allowance of a claim of this character as a whole would be to permit the bankrupts to retain the property, to resume business free from the claims of their unsecured creditors, or to dispose of it and retain the proceeds; in this instance to retain the proceeds since the property has been sold with the understanding that the claim if allowed would attach to the proceeds. Taken separately, it seems to me that the claim for each item must fail under the decisions above cited, either because it is heavy, power driven machinery, or is ‘too bulky and unwieldy to be operated by hand’, or is merely a convenience not ‘peculiarly essential’ to the electroplating trade.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Meritz v. Palmer

2. ““All tools, apparatus and books belonging to any trade or profession.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Meritz v. Palmer