In re Shepardson

By this pro-

ceeding there .is brought up for review an order of the referee in bankruptcy, awarding to the bankrupt certain real property as exempt from the claims of creditors. The bankrupt is a married woman, and filed a voluntary petition, upon which an adjudication was made, listing her total debts as amounting to the sum of $9,061.50, with no assets. Carrie M. Jameson, who is the objecting creditor here, is the mother of the bankrupt, and holds a claim in the amount of $5,541, the validity of which is admitted, as the bankrupt herself listed the same in her schedule.

The property held to be exempt consists of 10 acres of land in the farming district of Madera county, in this district. A county road divides the parcel of ground into two plots — one containing 4?/io acres; the other containing 95%oo acres. On the smaller parcel is a dwelling house occupied by the plaintiff and her husband. The land is farm land, and, except for certain other structures erected on the larger parcel, there are no buildings near the premises, other than some belonging to railroad property, the line of which runs parallel with the main highway upon which the land fronts. Some years prior to the…