Buttram v. Harris

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Buttram, a bankrupt, living and having a place of business in a small settlement called Oak Grove, made claim to have exempted to- him, not only the lands he was living on and using in the settlement, but two other tracts of farming land of 61 and 100 acres, respectively, lying some distance from it.

The referee thought the settlement Buttram lived in was a village within the meaning of the constitutional provision defining a homestead in a “city, town or village” (Const, of Texas, art. .16, §' 51), and that his homestead right was confined to the property he lived on…