Swift v. Kleckner

Complainant filed a bill to set aside a sale of land on execution on the ground that at the time of the levy of the attachment which preceded the execution the property levied upon was a homestead. The land in question, together with 28 acres adjoining, was occupied by complainant and his family up to 1899 as a homestead. At that date complainant leased the farm, made a sale of hisfarm implements, and removed with his family to the city of Ithaca. He bought a house and lot with the proceeds of this sale, taking the title in the name of his wife. He removed all his household goods to Ithaca…