Bank of Luverne v. Turk

Appellant, as a judgment creditor of E. J. Turk, by this proceeding, seeks to redeem his land from a mortgage to an insurance company. The land is a large tract which embraces the homestead of the mortgagor. The judgment is no lien upon the homestead.

The decree of the circuit court permitted a redemption only of the land not exempt, but required the payment of the entire mortgage debt. This would have the effect of relieving the homestead from the lien of the mortgage. But it is said that complainant cannot redeem the homestead because it has no lien on it, and that in effecting a redemption…