Baumann v. Franse

Ragan, C.

About twenty years ago the appellee Joseph Pimper acquired, under the homestead laws of the United States, title to an eighty-acre tract of land in Cuming county. Some time after that he acquired title to another forty-acre tract adjoining the eighty-acre tract, and, with his wife, the appellee Eva Pimper, and their family, continuously resided on said tract of land, using and occupying the same as their homestead until March, 1889. On the 30th of October, 1888, the appellees Joseph and Eva Pimper executed a mortgage upon this 120 acres of land to the appellant Franse. He assigned…