Court Opinion

ID: 9832308
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 21:48:00.397152+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:45.415723
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
On motion for a rehearing appellants contend that we are in conflict with the case of Cobern v. Stevens, 167 S. W. 207, by this court, in holding appellants’ petition insufficient to afford recovery of the 43 acres as a part of their homestead because not described, except as being a part of the 150 acres sold. That suit was to foreclose an attachment lien on 335 acres of land, 200 acres of which were defendants’ homestead; The land had not been sold and the court could have directed the officer making the sale to first give defendants an opportunity to designate the 200 acres claimed as their homestead and the sale of the balance would have been valid. Or, if defendants refused to designate the 200 acres, then the officer could have' made the sale as required by articles 3844 to 3854 of the Statutes. But in the case at bar the suit is to set aside the sheriff’s deed and to remove cloud, the land having already been sold, and appellants alone knew or had the right to designate which 43 acres constituted a part of their homestead. Not having described it, the court could grant them no relief, and if the jury had found 43 acres of the 150 to be homestead, still the court would not have been able to render a valid judgment for it, because it was not described.
In addition to our holding that no question of inadequacy of price for which the land sold was raised, we also think that appellants are not in a position to assert that the land sold for a grossly inadequate price because of their own conduct at the sale. Their attorney was present at the sale and notified those present that whoever bought the land would buy a lawsuiL.
The motion will be overruled.
Overruled.