Court Opinion

ID: 6644330
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Date Created: 2022-07-20 20:48:14.319157+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:59:22.372246
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Cobb, Ch. J.
This cause comes to this court on error to the district court from the final order of that court in refusing to *705confirm and in setting aside a sale of real estate on execution.
At the hearing the court found “that the said land levied upon and sold under said execution, to-wit: * * * was acquired by the said Patrick McCarty under and by virtue of the United States laws as a government homestead; that the debts on which judgments in the case were recovered and executions issued and the said premises sold, were contracted prior to the issuing of the patent by the United States therefor, and that the judgments are no liens on the said land,” and the judgment of the court was “that the said motion to set aside the said sale be and the same is hereby granted, the said sale ordered set aside, vacated, and forever held for nought, and that the said premises and land be and the same is wholly released fx’om any axxd all liens by virtxxe of said judgment or any execution issued thereoxx.”
There is a stipulation of facts in the case, which is treated by the parties, and signed by the judge of the district court, as a bill of exceptions, and certified by him to be all the evidence offered or given by either party. The following are the facts contained in said stipulation:
“ 1. The date of the debt contracted to plaintiff T. M. Messick was July 16, 1881.
“ 2. The date of the debt contracted to plaintiff F. M. Yroman was $10 on March 22, 1881, and $180, Sept. 20 1881.
“ 3. The date of the filing T. M. Messick’s jixdgment record was January 5,1882, and of F. M. Vroman’s judgment was February 5, 1882.
“ 4. The date of.final receiver’s receipt was August 26, 1881, and the date of the patent issued was Apxfil 29,1882.
“5. The dates of the mortgage and deed made by McCarty are as alleged.”
It is obvious that the court had not facts before it sufficient 'to sustain its findings or order. The stipulation, *706which the district judge certifies contains all the evidence given by either party at the hearing, contains nothing as to the method or the law • under which the said Patrick McCarty acquired the title to the land in question.
Prima facie .when a judgment is duly docketed in the district court it constitutes a lien upon the real estate of the defendant situated within the county, and with due regard to the stay and appraisement laws, such real estate may be levied upon and sold to satisfy such judgment. But such lands may be taken out of the operation of. the general rule by force of the national or state homestead laws, and possibly by other means, but in any event the same must be shown affirmatively, and cannot be presumed.
Thé order of the district court setting aside the sale is therefore reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings in accordance with law.
Reversed and remanded.
The other judges concur.