Milne v. Schmidt

This is a contest between a widow, claiming under the Act of the Legislature, approved March 17th, 1852, entitled “an Act to provide a creditor of her deceased husband. homestead for the widows and children of deceased persons,” and a mortgage

The authentic act of special mortgage granted by the deceased William Milne, to the appellant, Ban'thelemy Baeas, to secure the payment of a ‘promissory note of said Milne, bears date the 27th of February, 1852, consequently before the passage of the homestead law above mentioned.

Milne died in June, 1852, intestate, and Frangois Schmidt was appointed…