34 Minn. 258 | Minn. | 1885
The ease turns on the right to hold as a homestead a piece of land sold on execution sale. The piece sold was part of a larger tract occupied as a homestead by the execution debtor, and the whole of which was exempt, if he owned it within the meaning of the homestead law. A part of the larger tract (not the part sold) was designated as “Lot 10.” To this the debtor’s only claim of title was through an invalid tax sale, while he was owner of the remainder of the tract. The finding of the court below states that this lot 10 lay between the dwelling-house and out-buildings of the debtor and the laud sold on execution. The shape of the larger tract,
Judgment affirmed.