Weekes & Son v. Edwards

In 1889, a homestead was set apart to Henry H. Edwards as the head of a family. He subsequently died, and W. J. Weekes & Son obtained a judgment against his administrator. An execution issued thereon was levied upon land embraced in the homestead, to which Lizzie Edwards as a beneficiary thereof filed a claim. At the trial the claimant introduced in evidence the record of the homestead *315proceedings, including a schedule of the applicant’s creditors, in which appeared the name of the plaintiffs’ firm. There was also an affidavit purporting to show that personal service of a notice of the…