W. A. Lewis, Bankrupt v. Morrison Supply Company, Creditor, and Edwin T. Stitt, Trustee in Bankruptcy

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from the order of' the district court sustaining, without. opinion, the findings, conclusions, and order of the referee that the bankrupt was not entitled to a business homestead in Odessa, which was claimed by him as exempt under art. 3833, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas.

The matter comes up in this way. On February 2, 1955, the appellant herein filed his voluntary petition in bankruptcy. He claimed as exempt as a business homestead under the Texas Homestead Law, Lot 5, Block 13, College Addition to the City of Odessa, in Ector County, Texas, the…