Haimovitz v. Hector

This appeal is from a decree enjoining the sale of homestead real estate of a married man under an execution issued from thje Gdhcuit Court upon a judgment of a. justice of the peace for less than $100.00, in an action by Haimovitz against Hector to enforce a mechanic’s claim for material used in erecting a house on the described homestead, which judgment had' been recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court under the statute. Sec. 2087 Gen. Stats. 1906.

The Constitution provides:

“A homestead to the extent of one hundred and sixty acres of land, or the half of one acre within the…