Richards v. Orr
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal, ff.om Olarhe 'District Court. — Hon. H. M. Towner, Judge. The plaintiff recovered two judgments against defendant Martin Y. Orr February 13, 1900, and Jedd Knotta held another, rendered December 6, 1898. Actions on each of these to subject land in the name of Orr’s wife to their payment were began March 7, 1900, and afterwards consolidated. Upon hearing the petitions were dismissed, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLadd, C. J.
— For many years prior to' June 1, 1897, Martin Y. Orr had owned and occupied with his family two hunderd and 'forty acres of land in Clarke county. On that day he sold it, and applied_all the proceeds except $1,700 to the payment of his indebtedness to others than plaintiff. With this sum he purchased another farm of one hundred and-forty-seven acres February 14, 1898, taking title in the name of his wife, M. A. Orr, who executed a mortgage of $1,400 thereon to secure payment of the balance of the purchase price. It is agreed that the forty acres of the first farm occupied as a homestead was…
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