Case Name: T. J. Fuqua vs. J. H. Phares
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1880
Citations: 1 Mann. Unrep. Cas. 442
Docket Number: No. 7800
Parties: T. J. Fuqua vs. J. H. Phares.
Judges: 
Reporter: Unreported cases heard and determined by the Supreme Court of Louisiana, from January 8, 1877, to April, 1880
Volume: 1
Pages: 442–442

Head Matter:
No. 7800.
T. J. Fuqua vs. J. H. Phares.
A physician, residing with his family upon a tract of land of five hundred acres, is entitled to a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, if he in all respects fulfils the conditions and requirements of the Homestead Act.
Appeal from the District Court for East Feliciana. McVea, J.
Kernan for Plaintiff Appellant. Cross and Stone for Defendant.
The plaintiff relied on Hargrove v. Flournoy, 26 La. Ann. 645, refusing exemption to a lawyer, and Roberts v. Gordy, 28 La. Ann. 572, refusing it to a printer.

Opinion:
De Blanc, J.
They were denied the exemption, not because they were pursuing the occupations of lawyer and printer, but because the property, of which exemption was claimed, was not rural.
Judgment affirmed.