70 Iowa 589 | Iowa | 1887
I. The petition alleges that plaintiff purchased the land involved in this suit, executed a mortgage to secure the payment of the purchase money, and entered upon its possession ■ and occupancy as a homestead. The mortgage was foreclosed, and the land was sold under the decree of foreclosure, partly satisfying it. Plaintiff redeemed from the sale. A general execution, issued upon the decree, was levied upon land. The sale thereon plaintiff seeks to enjoin in this action. 'The demurrer, we think, was rightly sustained
II. The debt in this case being for the purchase money, the homestead was not exempt therefrom. Barnes v. Gay, 7 Iowa, 26; Christy v. Dyer, 14 Id., 438; Cole v. Gill, Id., 527; Burnap v. Cook, 16 Id., 149; Bills v. Mason, 42 Id., 329. As the homestead character of the land in question
III. Poweshiek Co. v. Dennison, 36 Iowa, 244; Clayton v. Ellis, 50 Id., 590; Escher v. Simmons, 54 Id., 269; Blake v. Black, 55 Id., 252; Todd v. Davey, 60 Id., 532 and Harms v. Palmer, 61 Id., 483,—cited by plaintiff’s counsel, do not sustain his position that the owner of the land and the mortgagor may, by redeeming from a sale upon the foreclosure decree which left a part of the decree unsatisfied, hold the land free from the lien of such unsatisfied part. The facts of these cases distinguished them from this. The purchasers or redemptioners in the cases referred to, who were held to have acquired the lands free from the liens of the parts of judgments or mortgages remaining unsatisfied after the sales thereon, were the creditors or others, not defendants in the judgment. In this case the debtor is the redemptioner. It is very plain that he does not by his redemption acquire the same rights which would be held by a creditor, or by a purchaser who is a stranger to the judgment, or is a mortgagee, should he redeem from a sale thereunder.
We reach the conclusion that the circuit court rightly sustained the demurrer to plaintiff’s petition.
Aeeiemed.