Alday v. Spooner

J. J. Spooner filed in the office of the ordinary of Seminole County an application for a homestead under the Civil Code of 1910, §§ 3377 et seq. The application was accompanied by the usual schedule. The ordinary signed an order to the county surveyor of an adjoining county to lay off the homestead and to malee a plat of the same, and issued a citation, specifying a day for the hearing. On that day, the surveyor having made a return, Mrs. Henrietta Alday, a creditor, made an appearance, which, besides the caption or title and certain parts which are not here material, was as follows: “Now…