Boatright v. Litz

Whittle, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

*614At the September term, 1884, of the Circuit Court of Wise county, Hurst Miller & Co. recovered a judgment against J. H. Powers for $786.90, with interest and costs, subject to a credit of $346.66. In 1902 this suit in equity was brought for the benefit of appellant (who had acquired the judgment) against J. H. Powers and his alienees to subject certain lands to its satisfaction. Among these tracts of land was one containing seventy-two acres known as the “J. R. Kilgore tract,” formerly a part of the homestead exemption claimed by Powers, by deed…