Hovie v. Pleshek

The demurrers were based upon the proposition that the lease is void because a portion of the premises demised constituted the homestead of the plaintiff and the wife did not sign the lease. Sec. 2203, Stats., provides that “no mortgage or other alienation by a married man of his homestead, exempt by law from execution, or any interest therein, legal or equitable, present or future, by deed or otherwise, without his wife’s consent, evidenced by her act of joining in the deed, mortgage or other conveyance, shall be valid or of any effect whatever, except a conveyance from husband to wife.” In…