Woods v. Davis
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from, Bremer Ci/rewit Court. Action to recover the sum of $150 for professional services rendered defendant as an attorney. Writ of attachment was issued and'levied upon forty acres of real property. At the time the services were rendered, the defendant was a married man and the head of a family, residing upon the attached property with his wife and a minor child, and he continued to reside thereon at the time the attachment was levied.
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Appeal from, Bremer Ci/rewit Court. Action to recover the sum of $150 for professional services rendered defendant as an attorney. Writ of attachment was issued and'levied upon forty acres of real property. At the time the services were rendered, the defendant was a married man and the head of a family, residing upon the attached property with his wife and a minor child, and he continued to reside thereon at the time the attachment was levied. Before the attachment was levied the wife of defendant procured from him a divorce upon the alleged ground of cruel treatment, and had awarded to her…
1Opinion of the CourtDay, J.
The statute does not, in express terms, declare the rule governing the rights of the parties in this case. *265Section 2278 of the Revision provides that: “ A widow or widower, though without children, shall be deemed the head of a family while continuing to occupy the house used as such at the time of the death of the husband or wife.” And section 2295 provides that: “ Upon the death of either husband or wife the survivor may continue to possess and occupy the whole homestead, until it is otherwise disposed of according to law.” While neither of these sections applies to the case of the…
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