Todd v. Gordy

The plantation of plaintiff having been seized under a fieri facias in the case of the American Colonization Society vs. J. Todd, he obtained an injunction to restrain the sale of one hundred and sixty *667acres thereof, claiming it as a homestead. The defense to this claim, besides the general denial, is, that a few days before that fixed for the sale the plaintiff abandoned the dwelling on the plantation, in which he had always resided as owner, and moved temporarily into a small house near by, which, with the other improvements, was never in good faith occupied as a residence by the plaintiff;…