Hannum v. McInturf

This bill is filed to enforce the collection of a judgment in favor of complainant, by attaching and selling the equitable interest of a tract of land which he is alleged to have bought and paid for in part, and after paying the balance of the purchase money, appropriate the surplus to complainant’s debt.

The defendant debtor files a plea, in which he claims that he resided on said land, was the head of a family, etc., and insists on an exemption of the property from sale, under the act of 1870 exempting a homestead, in equitable as well as legal estates, in possession of the head of a family,…