Crabtree v. Kirby

This is a contest of a claim of homestead exemption from the collection of a decree for costs adjudged against respondents in a statutory suit in equity to fix and declare a disputed boundary line.

The exemption claimants, appellants, contend that such at decree is for a “debt,” as distinguished from a “debt contracted”; fbat section 7882, Code, grants a homestead exemption from all debts, and not alone from “debts contracted,” as was expressly provided in the Code of 1896, section 2033. When that section went into the Code of 1907 (section 4160), the words “contracted after the twenty-third…