Goodall v. Boardman
Supreme Court of Vermont
This case was heard upon pleadings, — petition and answers,— and the report of the special master, Hon. Henry H. Powers.
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This case was heard upon pleadings, — petition and answers,— and the report of the special master, Hon. Henry H. Powers. The court, pro forma, adjudged and decreed that the said Ruby Boardman is not entitled to any right of homestead in the mortgaged premises, described in complainant’s petition; it was also adjudged and decreed that the complainant’s motion for an execution against defendant Ruby Boardman for the amount of costs, caused by the litigation of her claim for a homestead, is denied. The cause was heard at the February Term, 1880, W. G. Veazey, Chancellor. The following is the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Powers, J.
This is an ordinary petition to foreclose a mortgage. The defendant Ruby Boardman claims a homestead in the mortgaged premises. 1
The master’s report shows that on the 17th day of May, 1871, Moses Boardman, then the husband of the defendant Ruby, by his sole deed executed the mortgage in question, upon a certain farm in Wolcott; that at that date, Boardman and family were living on a farm in Greensboro, where he had lived for many years, and in which he had a homestead estate ; that on March 22, 1869, when he purchased the Wolcott farm, he…
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