Greenwood v. Maddox & Toms
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL EROM MONROE CIRCUIT COURT. Hon. M. L. Stephenson, Circuit Judge. We submit that tbe appellee, Toms, was not entitled to a homestead. For the determination of this question, we assume that there is no substantial difference between the old statute (Gould’s Digest, Chapter 68, Section 29,) and the constitutional enactment (State Constitution of 1868, Article XII. Section 8.) By the old law, the requisites for claiming this privilege were: First.
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APPEAL EROM MONROE CIRCUIT COURT. Hon. M. L. Stephenson, Circuit Judge. We submit that tbe appellee, Toms, was not entitled to a homestead. For the determination of this question, we assume that there is no substantial difference between the old statute (Gould’s Digest, Chapter 68, Section 29,) and the constitutional enactment (State Constitution of 1868, Article XII. Section 8.) By the old law, the requisites for claiming this privilege were: First. Citizenship, which this court in McKenzie vs. Murphy, 24 Ark., 155, construed to mean residence; and, Secondly. The qualification of being a…
1Opinion of the Court
English, Special Judge.
Rioses Greenwood & Son, merchants of New Orleans, sued Maddox & Toms, in the Monroe Circuit Court, on a note for $2707 14, dated 14th. April, 1870.
Upon an affidavit that the defendants had removed a part of their property out of the State, etc., a writ of attachment was issued and returned by the sheriff, levied on an undivided third interest of Tonis in the n’ortli-eas^ quarter of section 23, and the no.rtli-west quarter of section 24; township 1 north, range 3 west, 320'acres ; and, also, upon an engine, gin, machinery, etc., found on the premises. Both of the…
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