Mason v. Columbia Finance & Trust Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 20 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL EROM MONTGOMERY CIRCUIT COURT. 1. A debtor husband is entitled to a homestead in land owned by ■him, which is contiguous to and used as a farm in connection with ■an adjoining tract of land owned by his wife, although the house ■which they -occupied was on the wife’s land.
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Case 20 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL EROM MONTGOMERY CIRCUIT COURT. 1. A debtor husband is entitled to a homestead in land owned by ■him, which is contiguous to and used as a farm in connection with ■an adjoining tract of land owned by his wife, although the house ■which they -occupied was on the wife’s land. (Lowell v. Shan- , non, 60 la., 713.) 1. The whole tract of land, both that owned by himself and that owned by his wife, was occupied in legal contemplation hy Mason; and because the house -which he occupied happened to stand on that part of the land owned by the wife is no reason why the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Pryor
delivered tiie opinion of the court.
The sole question to be determined on this appeal is whether, or not the appellant, John Mason, is entitled to a homestead in certain real estate conveyed by him to A. A. Hazlerigg for the benefit of creditors.
The appellant, Mason, and his wife owned jointly a tract of 312 acres of land. The wife owned a part of the tract laid off and designated by metes and bounds in her own right, and the land owned by the husband adjoined the land of the wife, the entire body of land owned by husband and wife containing 312 acres, and used and cultivated as one farm. The…
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- Lowell v. ShannonSupreme Court of Iowa · 1883
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