In re Letson

HOOK, Circuit Judge.

This is a controversy between the bankrupt and the trustee over a tract of land in Garfield county, Okl., claimed by the former as a homestead. The referee found that the bankrupt purchased the land while insolvent and within the four months preceding the commencement of the bankruptcy proceedings, and that in doing so he used for part of the purchase price nonexempt property, with intent to cheat and defraud his creditors. The referee ordered that the land be set aside as a homestead, but subject to a •charge in favor of the trustee for the amount and value of the…