In Re Dummitt

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

H. CLYDE PEARSON, Bankruptcy Judge.

The issue here is whether a travelling salesman’s automobile should be exempt from levy and therefore not an asset vesting in the trustee pursuant to Va.Code § 34-26 (1977 Cum.Supp.)

That statute provides in pertinent part that a householder shall be permitted to claim exempt as follows:

“You shall also be entitled to hold exempt from levy or distress the following articles . . . and in the case of a mechanic the tools and utensils of his trade.”

George R. Dummitt is a travelling salesman, travels throughout the southeastern United…