In re Finklea

Citations

• 153 F. 492
• 1907 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 288

Syllabus

<p>Bankruptcy — Homestead Exemption — Head op Family.</p> <p>Where a bankrupt and his wife had separated by mutual consent a short time before the bankruptcy, and she had received approximately half of his property, and had removed with an adopted child to another town, where she remained, leaving him with no property, except a small stock of merchandise, he ceased on such separation to be.the head of a family, within the meaning of the homestead provision of the Constitution of South Carolina, and is not entitled thereunder to the allowance of a homestead exemption out of the remaining property.</p> <p>[Ed. Note. — For cases in point, see Cent. Dig. vol. 6, Bankruptcy, §§ 668-670 ; vol. 25, Homestead, §§ 22-25.]</p>