Kingman v. Higgins

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cumberland county; the Hon. William C. Jones, Judge, presiding. This was a bill in chancery, filed by John G. Higgins in his lifetime, against Carrie Kingman, to set aside a sale of his homestead under execution, in which Carrie Kingman claims title. The evidence in this case shows, that in 1875 a judgment was rendered against John G. Higgins, father of appellees, in favor of the Johnson estate, and that the indebtedness was for goods and merchandise, and not for anything preferred by the statute as a lien upon the homestead rights of the said John G. Higgins,…