Rhead v. Hounson

In 1874 one Burgess held a note for $500 signed by defendant Isaac Hounson and decedent Karr, and Hounson agreed with Karr to assume the payment of it. Hounson paid the interest for some three years, but did not pay the principal. Karr died and the demand was allowed against his estate.

In 1877 said defendant Isaac Hounson received conveyance of a farm of about one hundred and twenty-two acres in the township of Hudson in Lenawee county, and proceeded to occupy it as his homestead and carry it on, and some time thereafter and about the 20th of December of the same year he gave a deed of it, in…