Giles v. Robinson

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order denying a bankrupt’s claim of homestead exemption.

*229The property claimed as exempt consists of 183 acres which the bankrupt acquired in 1899. ' He built a home and moved on it with his family in 1901, and continued to live on it until in 1912. He then moved with his family about 10 miles away to a 10-aere tract adjoining the city of Austin, in order that he might more conveniently send his children to school, but with the intention of later moving back on the 183-aere tract.

That intention was abandoned some six or seven years prior to…