In re Eby

ORDER ON OBJECTION TO SCHEDULE B-4 PROPERTY CLAIMED AS EXEMPT

LEE M. JACKWIG, Bankruptcy Judge.

On April 15, 1987 the trustee’s objection to schedule B-4 property claimed as exempt filed on March 17, 1987 came on for hearing in Des Moines, Iowa. The trustee David A. Erickson appeared and Jonathan M. Kimple appeared on behalf of the debtors. This case presents the novel and timely question of whether a personal computer is an implement or piece of equipment reasonably related to a normal farming operation for purposes of Iowa’s farm machinery exemption codified at Iowa Code section 627.6(11)…