15 Iowa 5 | Iowa | 1863
The only question presented in this case is, whether a deed of trust upon the homestead by the
We have only to announce in this case, that in the one above referred to,. the question now presented was the leading and controlling one — that a majority of the court then thought and how hold, that a deed of trust, or mortgage, by the husband and wife upon the homestead is good and valid, and.passes the rights of the owners therein, by a proper description of the property encumbered, by metes and bounds, or numbers; and that in order to make such deed of trust or mortgage valid, it is not now, and was not then, necessary for the grantors to state specifically that it was their homestead that they sought to encumber.
Affirmed.