Gann v. McGee

Wade, O. J.

1. The homestead exemption covering a “Eord automobile” can only have been allowed under the provisions of section 3377 of the Civil Code of 1910, and could not be upheld as a statutory or “short” homestead (Civil Code of 1910, § 3416), since only the specific things named in the statute may be exempted by the latter, and an automobile is not so named. The conclusion that a homestead was sought and obtained under section 3377, supra, is further authorized by the fact that the application gave the names and addresses of the creditors of the husband of the applicant, from whose…