Court Opinion

ID: 8745036
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 11:03:53.775208+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:00:37.314652
License: Public Domain

WELLBORN, District Judge.
The evidence is undisputed that up to June of last year the bankrupt was actively engaged in farming. Although the bankrupt has since engaged in another pursuit, yet I think the inference a fair one that this latter occupation is but temporary, and does not mean permanent abandonment of his former occupation. It has been held, under the Iowa statute, that a debtor could claim his exemption as a farmer, though he had temporarily stopped farming and was living in town, and had sought other employment there, and had offered to sell some of his farming implements, if he intended to resume farming. Pease v. Price, 101 Iowa, 57, 69 N. W. 1120; 12 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law (2d Ed.) 104, note 1. See, also, Caswell v. Keith, 12 Gray, 351; Freem. Ex’ns, § 226. The referee’s decision, so far as it relates to the articles above enumerated, is reversed, and said articles will be set aside to the bankrupt as exempt.