Roche v. Du Bois

The trial court found that the premises had been lived in by the plaintiff and her husband and family since 1929, except during three or four of the winter months each year. There was testimony that for a part of this time the family lived in other property in Baraboo during the summer months. But on the point of actual living in and occupying the property involved the finding of the trial court cannot be held to be “against the great weight and clear preponderance of the evidence” and must be upheld.

Of course, that occupation of property shall constitute it a homestead, it must be occupied…