Reynolds v. Hull
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. Action eor partition. Mary A. Rodman, one of the defendants, is the widow, and the plaintiff and the other defendants are the heirs at law of B. R. Hull, deceased, who died intestate in the year 1859, seized of certain real estate in Jackson county, consisting of a lot of one and one-quarter acres, on which was situated his dwelling-house; and also of a farm of 120 acres situated about a mile therefrom, and a timber lot about the same…
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. Action eor partition. Mary A. Rodman, one of the defendants, is the widow, and the plaintiff and the other defendants are the heirs at law of B. R. Hull, deceased, who died intestate in the year 1859, seized of certain real estate in Jackson county, consisting of a lot of one and one-quarter acres, on which was situated his dwelling-house; and also of a farm of 120 acres situated about a mile therefrom, and a timber lot about the same distance in another direction. This action is brought to partition said real estate. The defendant, Mary A. Rodman, answers,…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
— Our statute enacts (Revision, § 2282), “ the homestead must embrace the house used as a home by the owner thereof, and if he has two or more houses thus used by him at different times and places, he may select which he will retain as his homestead.”
“ Sec. 2283. It may contain one or more lots or tracts of land with the buildings thereon and other appurtenances, subject to the limitations contained in the next section, but must in no case embrace different lots and tracts unless they are contiguous, or unless they are habitually and in good faith used as a part of the same homestead.”
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