Rittenhouse's Insolvent Estate

Citations

• 30 Pa. Super. 468
• 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 100

Syllabus

<p>Bankruptcy — Insolvency—Wage earners — Farmers—Act of congress of July 1, 1898 — Act of Pennsylvania, June 4, 1901, P. L. 404.</p> <p>The insolvency Act oí June 4, 1901, P. Ij. 404, is not suspended by the federal bankrupt act of July 1, 1898, as to wage earners and persons engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil.</p> <p>Where the property of a farmer has been sold by the sheriff, and thereafter insolvency proceedings have been instituted against the defendant in the execution under the Act of June 4, 1901, P. L. 404, the court in making an order directing the sheriff to pay over the proceeds of the sale to the receiver of the insolvent, cannot at the same time direct that the execution and all legal proceedings thereon be vacated and set aside.</p>