Peak v. Lenora State Bank

This case involves questions of homestead exemption and selection. September 28, 1892, the Lenora State Bank, defendant in error, recovered a money judgment against J. S. Peak, plaintiff in error, in the District Court of Norton County. At that time, and until after the levy of execution hereafter mentioned, plaintiff in error was the owner of a number of contiguous tracts of land, amounting to 760 acres, of which the land in question was a part. These lands embraced the northeast and southwest quarters of section seventeen, and the northeast quarter, and the north half of the southeast…