93 F. 422 | N.D. Tex. | 1899
The bankrupt, B. F. Coffman, complains of the action of the referee in sustaining the motion of the trustee, asking that the bankrupt be compelled to turn over to the trustee, or account for, the proceeds of the sale of three bales of cotton. The cotton composing the three bales was, at the time Coffman was adjudicated a bankrupt, growing on his homestead. Subsequent to the appointment and qualification of the trustee, it was gathered and taken from said homestead. The bankrupt claims said cotton as exempt to him under the laws of Texas. The exemption laws of the state of Texas in effect at the time of the filing of the petition herein did not include crops growing upon the homestead. Rev. St. Tex. 1895, art. 2395. While execution could not be levied upon a crop growing upon a homestead, yet execution can be levied on a crop after it has been gathered and removed from the homestead. Coates v. Caldwell, 71 Tex. 21, 8 S. W. 922; Silberberg v. Trilling, 82 Tex. 526, 18 S. W. 591. This cotton not being exempt to the bankrupt, the title to the same which he may have possessed at the time he was adjudged a bankrupt vested, by operation of law, in the trustee, upon his appointment and qualification, as of the daté -of said adjudication. Bankruptcy Act 1898, § 70. The trustee could not, at the time of his appointment and qualification, take possession- of said cot