Comstock v. Comstock

The complainant, who is the wife of Alfred Comstock, filed the bill in this cause to secure a homestead right. The bill was dismissed by the circuit court in chancery, and the complainant has brought her case here by appeal. Her claim is contested only by the defendants, Joseph B. and Abiathar W. Comstock.

The lands, as set forth in the bill, in which a homestead exemption is sought, are the northwest quarter of section twenty, the east half of the southwest quarter, the east half of the northwest quarter, and the west half of the southwest quarter, of section seventeen, in township eight…