Thorn v. Darlington
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 42 — PETITION EQUITY — CITED 4 Bush, 48, Brown, Bro. & Co. v. Martin & Co. Act of February 10, 1866, Myers’s Supplement, 715. 3 Metcalfe, 59, Fahnestock v. Bailey. 3 Metcalfe, 325, Mitcheson v. Foster. 2 Duvall, 304, Graves v. Ward. CITED Act of February 10, 1866, Myers’s Supplement, 715.
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE ROBERTSON
delivered the opinion op the court.
To secure a debt contracted since the 1st of June, 1866, the appellee, on the 19th of February, 1868, mortgaged a house and lot in Hardinsville, Shelby County, Kentucky, *449on which he and his wife and children then resided and still reside. His wife was no party to the mortgage, and the house and lot not being worth one thousand dollars, he for the benefit of his family claimed an exemption of the property under the homestead statute of February 10, 1866 (Myers’s Supplement, 715), and therefore resisted the purchase and sale as sought by the…
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