Adams v. Walicek

WALKER, Circuit Judge.

This is a petition to superintend and -revise the action of the lower court in' sustaining a bankrupt’s claim of a designated 200 acres of *27land out of a larger tract as a rural homestead under the Constitution and laws of Texas. The tract so claimed as exempt included the dwelling and the appurtenances thereto actually and continuously used for homestead purposes by the bankrupt and some of his family since prior to the death of his first wife in 1908; the bankrupt’s absences therefrom having been temporary and without any intention to abandon that place as a homestead,…