Shirland v. Union Nat. Bank
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Franhlin Circuit Court. Action in equity to enjoin the sale on execution of a certain -forty acre tract of land, on the the ground that the property is exempt as the homestead of plaintiffs. The judgment of the circuit court was for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
The petition alleges that the plaintiff, Martha A. Shirland, became the owner, in 1878, of a farm of one hundred and sixty acres, and that the forty acres in question was occupied by her and her family as a homestead in the spring of 1879, and has been so occupied ever since, and that it was so occupied when the debt on which defendant’s judg*97ment was rendered was contracted. It also alleges that, before defendant’s judgment was rendered, she mortgaged said farm to one Wesley Mott, and that Yroman&Sale obtained a judgment against her, which was a lien on the whole of the premises, and which…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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