Hansford v. Holdam

JUDGE HINES

delivered the opinion of'the court.

Appellant being tbe owner of a tract of land on which he resided with his family, sold for $1,000 a portion thereof, including the dwelling and other improvements, delivered possession to the purchaser, and rented premises some two miles therefrom. During his occupancy of the rented property he commenced the erection of a dwelling-house on the unimproved portion of the land belonging to him, with the avowed intention to make it his home. While these improvements were being made he mortgaged this land, the wife not joining, to appellee, and shortly…