Fox v. Brannan

The question involved is the right of defendants to an exemption.

In Beecher v. Baldy, 7 Mich. 488, it was said:

"It is the land, including the dwelling-house and appurtenances, and constituting a homestead in fact, owned and occupied by the debtor, and nothing else, which the Constitution exempts. And to bring it within the designation of a homestead, which the Constitution, of its own force, exempts, it must possess all the descriptive features of the homestead described in the Constitution as exempt. These are as follows: 1st. It must contain the dwelling-house and its appurtenances, without…