Lynn v. Sentel
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Moultrie county; the Hon. Edward P. Vail, Judge, presiding. This is a proceeding in chancery by Margaret Lynn, in the Moultrie circuit court, to set aside a sheriff’s sale of ten acres of land claimed by her as a homestead, to restrain the sheriff from making a deed to the holder of the certificate of purchase under the sale, and to prevent the holder of the certificate, George A. Sentel, from assigning it.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Moultrie county; the Hon. Edward P. Vail, Judge, presiding. This is a proceeding in chancery by Margaret Lynn, in the Moultrie circuit court, to set aside a sheriff’s sale of ten acres of land claimed by her as a homestead, to restrain the sheriff from making a deed to the holder of the certificate of purchase under the sale, and to prevent the holder of the certificate, George A. Sentel, from assigning it. The bill alleges that Margaret Lynn and Caleb Lynn, her husband, ,for seventeen years prior to 1889 lived on this ten acres of land as their…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wilkin
The contention of plaintiff in error is, that her homestead estate has continued to The present and is complete; that the judgments obtained against her husband, the holder of the legal title, were illegal, but if legal did not affect her homestead; that the divorce of her husband in Missouri, in 1894, was fraudulently obtained, and void, but even if valid could not affect her homestead rights in Illinois. Counsel for defendants in error take the opposite view of each of these contentions.
There is no dispute that Margaret Lynn, upon being abandoned by her husband, under the statute succeeded…
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