In re Petersen
Decision Date | 06 July 1899 |
Docket Number | 2,925. |
Court | U.S. District Court — Northern District of California |
Parties | In re PETERSEN. |
Samuel Rosenheim and F. C. Mosebach, for bankrupt.
The certificate of the referee shows that, in the course of proceedings before him in said cause, the following question arose:
The bankrupt's claim for exemption was resisted by the trustee, and, upon the foregoing testimony, the referee found that the articles above described 'were not the tools or implements of a mechanic or artisan,' and made an order denying the bankrupt's claim to exemption, and the question of the correctness of this ruling has been certified to the judge of this court for his opinion.
Subdivision 4 of section 690 of the Code of Civil Procedure of this state provides that 'the tools or implements of a mechanic or artisan necessary to carry on his trade' are exempt from execution. The supreme court of California, in construing this section in Re McManus' Estate, 87 Cal. 292, 25 P. 413, said:
In accordance with this rule, it was held in that case that a jeweler's safe owned by the debtor, and used in his business as a jeweler and watch repairer, was exempt from execution as an implement of his trade.
Following the construction placed upon section 690 of the Code of Civil Procedure in the case just cited, I am of the opinion that the bankrupt was, at the date of his adjudication as such bankrupt, an artisan, carrying on his trade, within the meaning of the law,...
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