Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1904 — UNIQUE BANKRUPTCY PETITION [ARTICLE]

UNIQUE BANKRUPTCY PETITION

Piling of the Same Costa More Than the Total Amount of the Bankrupt's Debts.

Lafayette, lnd., Feb. 4.—A unique petition in bankruptcy in behalf of Edwin S. Dill, a carpenter, has been filed ia the United States district court at Chicago by a law firm of this city. The carpenter’s only debt, aceordiug to the petition, is one of sls, which be owes to the treasurer of Montgomery county, Ind., for county and state taxes.

The only assets listed are a small ■mount of personal property, which is claimed as exempt. A peculiar feature is that merely the filing of the bankruptcy proceeding costa $35. exclusive of the attorney’s fees. Aceordiug to the figuring of the court clerks Dijl could have saved at least S2O by paying the taxes mentioned as bis ouiy debt.