Johnson v. May

WHEELER, District Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree of the district court in bankruptcy, and has been heard by express request of the parties in the necessary absence of the circuit justice and the circuit judge, with the approval of the circuit justice, on bill, answers, replication, proofs, and argument of counsel. The defendants, husband and wife, built a house on land she had bargained for, at the price of four hundred and twenty-five dollars, and paid for in part from her separate means, and moved into it and occupied the premises for a homestead. Soon afterwards she paid the balance…