Barber v. Rorabeck
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from Eaton Circuit. cited: Bull v. Conroe, 13 Wis., 234/ Saraher v. Fenian, 5 Fans., 592. cited: Bogers v.Bayland,42 Tex.,422; Noland v. Beed, 38 Id., 425; Clark v. Noland, Id., 416; Brown v. Osgood, 68 III., 178; Finley v. Bietriok, 12 Iowa, 516; Batter-son v. King, 29 III, 532; 31 III, 200; 7 Mich., 488; 10 Mich., 291; 24 Mich., 447; 26 Mich., 106; Billon on Mun. Corp., § 126; Williams v. Star, 5 Wis., 534; 32 Cal, 172; 17 Mich., 471.
1Opinion of the Court
Cooley, Ch. J:
This suit involves the question of a homestead right. It is a suit to foreclose a mortgage on forty-six acres of land *400which the defendants have for nearly twenty years cultivated as a farm and occupied as a homestead. Until 1871 the land was outside the corporate limits of the village of Eaton Rapids, but those limits were extended in 1871 to include it. The land, however, is still occupied as a farm, and the value does not exceed fifteen hundred dollars. In the same year that the corporate limits were extended, but after-wards, the mortgage was given by James E. Rorabeck for…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Jarvais v. MoeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1875
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- Finley v. DietrickSupreme Court of Iowa · 1861
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