Jackson v. Parrott

Speer, Justice.

This was a claim case pending in Greene superior court, and on the trial of which, after the evidence was concluded, on motion the claim was dismissed by the court, to which dismissal claimant excepted.

On the 5 th day of February, 1873, plaintiff in error and her husband executed a mortgage upon certain real estate to the defendant in error to secure the payment of a note made by the husband on the 14th November, 1871. At the time of the execution of said mortgage the plaintiff in error had applied to the proper court to have the land (thus encumbered) set apart as a homestead,…