In re Steele

HAMMOND, District Judge.

By agreement between the assignee and the bankrupts, the question is submitted for the opinion of the court, as if on certificate of the register, whether or not the refusal of the assignee to allow them each his gold watch as exempt property, is proper under the circumstances set out in the agreement of facts. John Steele has been allowed, and claims no exemption except this watch, which is described as “a plain, old style, single case gold watch, which he has owned for twenty-five years or more, and which would scarcely sell for twenty-five dollars.” R. L. Steele has…