Tiernan v. His Creditors
California Supreme Court
Appeal by contestants from an order of the Superior Court, of the City and County of San Francisco, setting apart a homestead to the insolvent debtor. Halsey, J. Proceeding in insolvency.
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Appeal by contestants from an order of the Superior Court, of the City and County of San Francisco, setting apart a homestead to the insolvent debtor. Halsey, J. Proceeding in insolvency. On the twenty-seventh day of April, 1880, Richard Tiernan filed in the Superior Court' of the City and County of San Francisco, his petition in insolvency, under the provisions of “An Act for the relief of insolvent debtors and protection of creditors, approved May 4, 1852,” and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto. On the eighth day of July, 1880, the said Richard Tiernan applied to the…
1Opinion of the Court
The Court:
This is an appeal from an order, in insolvent proceedings, setting apart a homestead to the insolvent.
1. The declaration of homestead stated the value of the premises to be eight thousand dollars. The objection to the order on this ground is disposed of by the opinion of this Court in Ham v. The Santa Rosa Bank, 10 P. C. L. J. 411.
'2. The premises consist of a lot or parcel of land thirty-five feet wide, fronting on Mission Street, in the City and County of San Francisco, by one hundred and twenty-twO and a half feet deep, which, with the improvements, are of the value of eight…
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