Iowa Mutual Insurance v. Parr

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Schroeder, J.:

This is an action on a contract. Appeal has been perfected by the defendants from a judgment of the trial court ordering the sale of their homestead to satisfy the judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff, and from an order of the trial court overruling the defendants’ motion to set aside the order of sale of the defendants’ homestead.

The primary question is whether a waiver of the homestead exemption contained in an indemnity agreement is valid.

On the 26th day of February, 1958, Harley V. Parr and Rarbara A. Parr…