Case Name: Mudge, Adm'r, v. Lanning et al.
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Iowa
Decision Date: 1886-04-22
Citations: 68 Iowa 641
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mudge, Adm’r, v. Lanning et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Iowa Reports
Volume: 68
Pages: 641–642

Head Matter:
Mudge, Adm’r, v. Lanning et al.
1. Homestead: judgment for damages to: exempt erom garnishment. A judgment for damages done to a homestead cannot be garnished to satisfy another judgment which is not a lien on the homestead. (See Kaiser v. Seaton, 62 Iowa, 463.)
Appeal from Wapello District Court.
Thursday, April 22.
Plaintiee’s intestate obtained a judgment against the defendant, Lanning, on which execution issued, and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Company was garnished thereon as a supposed debtor of the defendant. The garnishee answered, admitting that it was indebted to defendant in an amount greater than that of plaintiff’s judgment. Defendant appeared, and, in a pleading filed in the proceeding, alleged that the debt due from the garnishee to him was exempt from execution. The district court entered judgment in plaintiff’s favor against the garnishee, and from this judgment defendant appeals.
Sloan, Worh ds Brown, for appellant.
Chambers, McElroy dc Carver, for appellee.

Opinion:
Reed, <1.
Defendant owns a homestead, which is exempt from judicial sale for the satisfaction of the judgment which plaintiff sought to enforce by the garnishment proceedings. The place consists of twenty acres of ground, with the dwelling house and other buildings situated thereon, and is of the present value of $500. In the operation of its railroad the garnishee set out a fire which destroyed the fences and grape vines and fruit trees on the place, and defendant obtained judgment against the garnishee for the damages caused thereby. The judgment appealed from appropriates a por tion of the debt evidenced by that judgment to the satisfaction of plaintiff's judgment against defendant, and the only question in the case is whether said debt is subject to be so appropriated. It was held by this court in Kaiser v. Seaton, 62 Iowa, 463, that the money which had been awarded the property owner as damages on acount of the appropriation of a portion of the ground included in a homestead as the right of way for a railroad was exempt from execution for a reasonable time, to the same extent as the homestead was, notwithstanding the homestead character of the property was not destroyed by the appropriation of the right of way. .The facts of' the present case bring it within this rule, and, following that case, the judgment will be
Reversed.