...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...

...shall be entitled to the benefits of this act as a voluntary bankrupt. Subdivision "b" 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 au involuntary bankrupt, upon default, or an impartial trial, and shall be subject...

...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...

...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...

...of July 1, 1898. c. 541, ! 4b, 30 Stat. 547 [U. 8. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3423], provides as follows : "Any natural person, except a wage earner or a person engaged chiefly in funning or the tillage of the soil ; any unincorporated company, any corporation engaged principally...

...manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, or mercantile pursuits." Cleage was not a wage-earner or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, and he was therefore liable to an adjudication as an involuntary bankrupt whether or not he was principally...

...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...