Keller v. Struck

The plaintiffs sought by this action to recover the value of lumber purchased from them, and used in the construction of a dwelling-house upon a lot owned by the defendant in the city of St. Paul, and to have the amount of the recovery declared a lien, and enforced as such. The answer of the defendant denied the purchase of the lumber by him, and set forth facts showing that the lot was his homestead at the time of the alleged sale. No reply having been interposed to the asserted right of homestead, the court granted judgment for defendant upon the pleadings. ■ There being no reply putting in…