Case Name: Adams, Frost & Co., vs. W. H. Smith; G. Muller, vs. J. W. Earheart; Adams, Frost & Co., vs. T. P. Lide
Court: Supreme Court of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1870
Citations: 2 S.C. 228
Docket Number: 
Parties: Adams, Frost & Co., vs. W. H. Smith. G. Muller, vs. J. W. Earheart. Adams, Frost & Co., vs. T. P. Lide.
Judges: Willard, A. J., and Wright, A. J., holding that the exemption may be claimed, and Moses, C. J., dissenting.
Reporter: South Carolina Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 228–228

Head Matter:
Adams, Frost & Co., vs. W. H. Smith. G. Muller, vs. J. W. Earheart. Adams, Frost & Co., vs. T. P. Lide.
The debtor, in a judgment on contract recovered before the adoption of tlie Constitution of 1S68, may claim the homestead exemption allowed by that Constitution, as against the lien of such judgment.

Opinion:
Each of these cases involved the question decided in . the case of Kennedy, (ante, p. 216,) namely, whether a homestead exemption may be claimed as against a judgment entered up before the adoption of the Constitution of 1868, and in each the result was the same as in that case;
Willard, A. J., and Wright, A. J., holding that the exemption may be claimed, and Moses, C. J., dissenting.