Case Name: Gardner, &c. v. Smith, &c.
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1874-09-18
Citations: 10 Bush 245
Docket Number: 
Parties: Gardner, &c. v. Smith, &c.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 73
Pages: 245–246

Head Matter:
Case 10 — PETITION EQUITY
September 18.
Gardner, &c. v. Smith, &c.
APPEAL FROM NELSON CIRCUIT COURT.
Homestead can not be subjected to the payment of debts created after June 1, 1866, unless the debt or liability existed prior to the purchase of the land.
Part of á tract of land having been sold to pay purchase-money, the owner is entitled to have a homestead set apart to him in the remainder. Webster v. Bronston, trustee, &c. (5 Bush, 521) concurred in.
Muir & Wickliffe,.......For Appellants,
CITED
General Statutes, p. 483. Myers’s Supplement, p. 715.
Civil Code, sections 474, 477.
17 B. Mon. 286. 18 B. Mon. 120. 1 Littell, 319.
4 Mon. 76. 3 J. J. Marsh. 43. 3 B. Mon. 50.
8 B. Mon. 316. 1 Johns. Ch’y, 430. • 5 Bush, 522.
Wm. Johnson,..........For Appellees,
CITED
Homestead Exemption Act.

Opinion:
JUDGE LINDSAY
delivered the opinion oe the court.
The debts of J. S. Smith to Hogden's executor were contracted in January, 1866. The land, for the part purchase- price of which the notes held by said executor were executed, was purchased by said Smith at the same time.
The homestead act invested Smith with the right to a homestead out of said land, subject to the payment of the debts owing by him on the 1st of June, 1866. He did not lose this right by reason of subsequently becoming indebted to appellant.
The vendor's lien being satisfied by a sale of a portion of the land, Smith is then entitled to his homestead.. If any land is left after the same is assigned, Gardner may subject it to the payment of his debt.
This court, as at present constituted, concurs with the reasoning of Judges Robertson and Peters in the case of Webster v. Bronston, trustee, &c. (5 Bush, 521).
Judgment affirmed.