30 F. Cas. 835 | E.D. Mo. | 1869
"While the foregoing views of the register would in many cases control the action of an assignee, yet, as the bankruptcy act contemplates that the bankrupt shall retain, as exempt, specified property, or its equivalent, in some instances, it is lawful and proper, when there is no individual ownership by the head of "a family, of the property referred to in section 11 of the said Missouri statute, to make the allowance out of partnership assets. It is true, as a legal proposition, that the individual interest of a partner in partnership property is as stated by the register, yet his right of exemption in his individual property disregárds the otherwise legal rights of his creditors. The policy of exemptions, and the legal rules on which they rest, modify the strict technical rules by which rights of creditors are otherwise enforceable. In this case the exemptions claimed should be allowed.
