...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...

...entitled to the benefits of this act as a voluntary bankrupt, b. Any natural person, except a wage-earner or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage...principally in manufacturing, trading, printing, publishing, 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...S. Сотр. St Supp. 1905, p. 683], amongst those subject to involuntary bankruptcy proceedings is "any corporation engaged principally In manufacturing,...trading, printing, publishing, mining or mercantile business," and the section concludes: "Private bankers, but not national banks or banks incorporated...

...error, i 2. SAME — PETITION — OCCUPATION OF DEBTOR. Under Bankr. Act 1898, § 4, providing that any natural person, except a wage earner or a person engaged chiefly in farming, may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt, a petition in involuntary bankruptcy which does not show the...