Beckert v. Whitlock
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cullman. Tried before the Hon. Henry C. Speaks. . This was a contest of the right to a homesteafl exemption in and to a house and lot in the town of Cullman, between Vm. L. Whitlock, plaintiff in execution and contestant, and Charles A. Beckert, defendant and claimant.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cullman. Tried before the Hon. Henry C. Speaks. . This was a contest of the right to a homesteafl exemption in and to a house and lot in the town of Cullman, between Vm. L. Whitlock, plaintiff in execution and contestant, and Charles A. Beckert, defendant and claimant. The plaintiff’s judgment against said Beckert (and one Watlington) was rendered by the Circuit Court of Cullman county on the 8th November, 1881, and executions on it were duly issued as follows: December 23d, 1881; September 1st, 1882; November 15th, 1882; and May 1st, 1883, all of which were…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
— Tbe appellant made, and filed for record in tbe office of tbe judge of probate, two declarations in writing, claiming tbe lot in controversy to be exempted as a homestead from levy and sale under process for collection of debts — one in December, 1877, and tbe other in February, 1882. Tbe plaintiff having obtained judgment against the appellant in November, 1881, upon which successive executions bad been issued and returned “no property,” bis attorney, in April, 1884, made and filed in tbe office of tbe clerk of tbe Circuit Court an affidavit to contest tbe validity of the claim of…
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