Case ID: f-cas_24/html/0051-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "WELKER, District Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 14,095.
    In re TONNE.
    [13 N. B. R. 170;  1 N. J. Wkly. Dig. 437.]
    District Court, N. D. Ohio.
    1875.
    Bankruptcy — Exemption—Joint Estate.
    1. The bankrupt is entitled to an exemption although his wife owns a house.
    2. A partner cannot have an exemption set off to him out of the joint estate.
    [Cited in Re Boothroyd, Case No. 1,052: Re Melvin, Id. 0,400; Re Corbett, id. 3,220.]
    TONS OF.
    [Note. Cases cited under this title will be found arranged in alphabetical order under the ouantity or number of tons; e. g. “Tons of Coal. See Two Hundred and Thirteen Tons of Coal.”]
    [In the matter of D. H. Tonne, a bankrupt]
    
      
       [Reprinted from 13 N. B. R. 170, by permission.]
    
   WELKER, District Judge.

Held: First. That where the wife of the bankrupt is the owner of a house, not occupied as a homestead by the family, nor allowed to be so occupied by the wife, such bankrupt is entitled to exemption of property to the value of five hundred dollars, notwithstanding such ownership by the wife.

Second. That a partner in a firm in involuntary bankruptcy, is not. under the Ohio exemption laws, nor the bankrupt law, entitled to have set off to him out of the joint property of the firm, property to be value of five hundred dollars.

Third. That such partner is only entitled to such exemption out of his individual property, if such he may have.