In re Touchet

DAWKINS, District Judge.

This ease is before the court upon petition of the trustee' to review the ruling of the referee, sustaining a claim of exemption as a homestead of 14 acres of land belonging to the bankrupt.

The bankrupt was the owner of several tracts of land acquired from various persons, all of which, except one of 4 acres, were contiguous and aggregated less than 160 acres. He failed to give the addresses of two out of three creditors placed on his original sehedules, and omitted entirely several others, and on the date set for the first meeting none of them appeared. Inasmuch as he…