Hughes v. . Hodges
Supreme Court of North Carolina
PLAINTIFF'S APPEAL. This was a civil action, heard before Graves, J., at the-Spring Term, 1888, of the Superior Court of Northampton. County. The plaintiffs are the executor and heirs-at-law of Samuel Calvert.
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PLAINTIFF'S APPEAL. This was a civil action, heard before Graves, J., at the-Spring Term, 1888, of the Superior Court of Northampton. County. The plaintiffs are the executor and heirs-at-law of Samuel Calvert. On the 8th of January, 187(3, defendant executed three notes of that date, but falling due in one, two and three years after date, payable to said Samuel Calvert, and at the same time executed to said Calvert a mortgage deed, conveying thirty-five acres of' land in Northampton County, to secure the payment of said notes. This action was brought to foreclose. At the time when the…
1DissentBy Merrimon, J.
The Constitution, Art. X, by its express terms, as well as the spirit which pervades it and the judicial interpretation of it for the last twenty years, not only secures a home to an insolvent debtor and his family beyond the reach of the final process of a court, but goes further, and protects and secures to the wife and children a homestead estate in the lands of the husband and father independent of any actual allotment or defined location of the homestead. This homestead estate is protected against the reckless alienation of an improvident or vicious husband and father, by section 8,…
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