Beach v. Macon Grocery Co.

Citations

• 120 F. 736
• 57 C.C.A. 150
• 1903 U.S. App. LEXIS 4526

Syllabus

<p>1. Bankruptcy — Petition to Adjudge a Person a Bankrupt — Sufficiency— Amendment.</p> <p>The petition to adjudge an involuntary bankrupt, if not sufficient because not alleging that he is not a wage earner or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, though containing averments consistent with his being a merchant and not chiefly engaged in tilling the soil, may be cured by amendment.</p> <p>2. Same — Second Petition to Review.</p> <p>A petition to revise proceedings in bankruptcy on the ground of the insufficiency of the petition of creditors will be denied, the same matter having been involved in former proceedings by the same petitioner, and therein fully disposed of.</p>