Jansen v. Lewis

Ragan, C.

This is an appeal from a decree of the district court of Cass county. There is little, if any, dispute as to the *557material facts of the case and the history of this litigation is briefly as follows: On April 29, 1890, John Lewis was the owner in fee of a tract of land in Cass county. This land was of the value of about $8,000 and incumbered by mortgages to the extent of $3,000. Lewis and his family occupied this land as a homestead. At this date Lewis owned another tract of land which was mortgaged to a man by the name of McClintic for $4,000; and about this time Lewis and his wife…