52 S.C. 574 | S.C. | 1898
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
In 1881, M. J. Rucker recovered a judgment against David B. Culler, and two other parties, upon a note dated in 1878. Execution was issued upon said judgment, whereupon Culler claimed homestead. Culler remained in possession of the land until his death in 1893. H. A. Spann was appointed administrator of his estate, and under proceedings thereafter instituted in the probate court to sell the real estate in aid of assets to pay debts, a tract containing 133 acres, being a part of the land which had been assigned to David B. Culler as a homestead, was sold in 1896 to Henry Crim, who is now in the possession thereof. The parties served with the summons in the said proceeding are the same as the parties plaintiff and defendant here, except Henry Crim and Delia Hines. This, action is brought to set aside the sale of said land to Henry Crim and to recover possession thereof, together with damages, also for an accounting by the administrator, and for partition of the real estate of David B. Culler. The Circuit Judge decided that the sale to Crim was void by reason of the homestead exemption, and that the heirs of David B. Culler were entitled to recover possession of the land, together with damages.
The view which this Court takes of the fourth exception renders unnecessary a consideration of the third exception.
It is the judgment of this Court, that the judgment of the Circuit Court be reversed, and that the case be remanded, for the purpose of adjusting the rights existing between Henry Crim and Lena Hines.