Dicken v. Thrasher

Jackson, Judge.

Mahala Thrasher and her sons worked on Dicken’s land, and made a crop • on a contract for labor thereon. Dicken *361refused to pay; she sued and recovered judgment, on which an execution was issued, and levied upon Dicken’s land. It was homestead land, duly exempted and laid off, and Dicken, as such, claimed that it was exempt from levy and sale under the fi. fa. The court below held that it was not exempt, but subject to the claim of these laborers for making the crop; and the single question is: are homestead lands set apart to families, liable for wages to the people employed to…