Briscoe v. Vaughn

This cause presents a single question of law that is at once interesting to consider and important to properly determine. It is: What are the rights of the alienee of a homestead transferred after it has been set apart by metes and bounds or other equivalent proceedings? The facts found by the Court of Chancery Appeals, so far as necessary to be stated, are that complainants, on the 26th of August, 1895, obtained a judgment against defendant, J. C. Vaughn, for $217.71 and costs. An execution issued and was levied on a tract of land belonging to Vaughn, the levy reciting that it was made…