Dicus v. Hall, Hooper & Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Jackson. Tried before tbe Hon. John B. Tally. Tbis was a contested claim of homestead exemption, between Hall, Hooper & Co., plaintiffs in execution against Anderson Dicus, and tbe said Dicus as claimant.
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Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Jackson. Tried before tbe Hon. John B. Tally. Tbis was a contested claim of homestead exemption, between Hall, Hooper & Co., plaintiffs in execution against Anderson Dicus, and tbe said Dicus as claimant. Tbe court ruled against tbe claim, and ordered tbe land to be sold; to wbicb ruling and judgment tbe defendant excepted, and be bere assigns it as error. cited Thompson on Homesteads, §§ 101, 102, 103, 105, 106; Gregg v. Bostioich, 33 Cal. 220.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, C. J.
— Dicus, tbe appellant, bad owned and occupied as a residence a small tract of land, some fifty-seven acres, upon wbicb be bad some twenty-five acres cleared and in cultivation. He bad occupied it as a borne for more than twenty years. Several years before tbe debt was incurred, under wbicb these proceedings were bad, be purchased an additional eighty acres of land, separated from tbe former by an intervening tract six hundred yards wide. On tbis latter purchased tract be bad some twenty acres cleared, and bad on it stables and a crib. From tbe tract last purchased be obtained timjber and…
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