Porter v. Teate

The Chief Justice

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a bill in equity to subject certain lands to sale for money alleged to be due under an “obligation contracted for the purchase of said premises,” the lands being claimed as exempt from sale as the homestead of the debtor, who denies that the money is due under such an obligation within the meaning of the Constitution and laws on that subject. Williams, who is a co-defendant in the bill with the debtor, claims that he is an innocent purchaser without notice -of any legal or equitable lien. This appeal is from a decree that the land…