Creech v. Childers
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Lincoln Circuit Court.- — Hon. JE. 'M. Hughes, Judge. The property was not a homestead for the following reasons: (1) It is situated in the corporate limits of Troy. The dwelling house in which they lived is located on lot 51. Lot 51 is one hundred feet square and contains over thirty-six square rods of land.
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Appeal from Lincoln Circuit Court.- — Hon. JE. 'M. Hughes, Judge. The property was not a homestead for the following reasons: (1) It is situated in the corporate limits of Troy. The dwelling house in which they lived is located on lot 51. Lot 51 is one hundred feet square and contains over thirty-six square rods of land. At the time the debt of Maggie Yertrees was created in 1877, the extent of homestead exemptions in “cities -or coiporated towns and villages having a less population than forty thousand shall not include more than thirty square rods of ground or exceed the total value of…
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
Ejectment to recover lots 25 and 26 in the city of Troy.' The petition is in the common form, and the answer is a general denial. The trial in the circuit court was before the court, sitting as a jury, no instructions *341were asked or given, the judgment was for the defendants and the plaintiff appealed.
The facts are these. Mr. Vertrees (Christian name not given) died in 1865, leaving a widow, Mary, and four children by .a former marriage, to-wit, Isaac, Lonis, Maggie and Campbell. At the time of his death he occupied the land in question with lots 51 and 52, as a homestead. The mansion house…
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