...proceedings being limited to other natural persons, unincorporated companies, and " incorporated companies engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing,...mercantile pursuits, owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over." Private bankers are also brought within this provision. Any natural...

...entitled to the benefits of the act as a voluntary bankrupt. Any natural person, except a wage-earner or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, and unincorporated company, and any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing, trading, printing,...

...much of said section as is apposite to the point urged reads thus: "Any natural person, except * * * a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, * * * may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt upon default or an im•partial trial, and shall be subject...

...[US Comp. St. Supp. 1905, p. 683]), reads as follows: "Any natural person, except a wage-earner, or person engaged chiefly In farming or the tillage of...principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, mining, or mercantile pursuits, owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars or over, may be adjudged...

...property are likely to be well known to his neighbors, and the opportunities for fraud are quite limited. Any unincorporated company, and any corporation engaged...printing, publishing, or mercantile pursuits, owing debts of ? 1.000, may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt. !So, too, may a private banker. This is merely...

...engaged chiefly In fanning or the tillage of the soil, any unincorporated company, and any '•nrporation engaged principally In manufacturing, trading, printing,...mercantile pursuits, owing debts to the amount of one thousand dollars <r over, may be adjudged an Involuntary bankrupt upon default or an impartial...

...bankrupt. Section 4(b) of the bankruptcy act provides that "any natural person, except a wage-earner or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil * * * may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt". It is an elementary rule that in proceeding on a statute...

...etc., owing debts to the amount of $1,000 or over, may be adjudged an Involuntary bankrupt. Held, that a person engaged chiefly In farming or the tillage of the soil should be construed to apply only to natural persons, and not to corporations. 2. SAME — EVIDENCE....

...that seems peculiarly applicable to the case at bar. After quoting from section 4 of the bankrupt act, "Any corporation engaged principally in manufacturing,...trading, printing, publishing, or mercantile pursuits * • * may be adJudged an involuntary bankrupt" the court says: "While the artificial atmosphere used...

...voluntary bankrupt' And by subsection b it is enacted that 'any natural person, except a wage-earner or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, * * * may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt upon default or an impartial trial, and shall be subject...