Citizens' National Bank v. Gass

Citations

• 29 Pa. Super. 125
• 1905 Pa. Super. LEXIS 276

Syllabus

<p>Insolvency — State bankruptcy act — Debtor’s exemption — Act of June 4, 1901, P. L. 404.</p> <p>Under the Act of June 4, 1901, P. L. 404, insolvent debtors are entitled to the benefit of the exemption act, and this benefit they cannot waive. There is nothing in the thirty-third section of the act relating to creditors who do not choose to participate in the distribution of the assigned estate, which will permit such creditors to levy upon exempted property, if it appears that the waiver under which they claim is executed subsequently to the Act óf June 4,1901, P. L. 404.</p> <p>Bankrupt law — Insolvency—Farmers.</p> <p>Wage earners and persons engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, cannot be. subjected to the provisions -of the federal bankrupt act of July 1, 1898, without their consent, and as to such persons the Pennsylvania Act of June 4, 1901, P. L. 404, is in force.</p>