Gale v. Hopkins

Taylor, C.

This is an appeal by Rita Hopkins from a judgment enforcing mechanics’ liens against her homestead, consisting of two lots situated at the comer of Wentworth avenue and Forty-fifth street in the city of Minneapolis. The lots have a frontage of 75 feet on Wentworth avenue and are 182 feet in length along Forty-fifth street. The dwelling house in which she resides is located on the front part of the lots. In 1922, she set stakes marking the line between the front 90 feet and the rear 42 feet of the lots and graded the rear 42 feet and erected a second dwelling house thereon facing…