Bowen v. Bowen

Jackson, Judge.

The single question made in the record in this case is, can a man’s own individual property be set apart as homestead and exemption from his debts without his consent? We think that it cannot be done under the constitution and laws of this state, and our reasons for so holding are sufficiently set out in the syllabus furnished the reporter for publication. We merely remark here that under the old exemption laws, enacted in 1841, a question somewhat analogous (o that at bar came before this court, and it was held that the legislature had no constitutional power to take from a…