Court Opinion

ID: 5559006
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 00:46:42.11456+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:35:24.882733
License: Public Domain

Jackson, Justice.
Mrs. Johnson applied for a homestead out of a house and lot belonging to her husband in Greenesboro. The survey- or estimated the value of the premises at $3,000.00 ; whereupon the ordinary ordered it sold, and it sold for $2,350.00, and after paying prior liens or debts there was left $1,800.00 homestead money. A receiver was appointed to invest this sum in a homestead, and he bought a house and lot for the family from I)r. Poullain at $2,500.00, paying $1,800.00 cash. Eor the balance of purchase money therefor, the husband and wife gave a note secured by mortgage, in which the said sum was recognized as purchase money. Poullain foreclosed the mortgage, and execution was issued and levied upon the house and lot, which was met by affi-' davit of illegality by Mrs. Johnson. The court dismissed the affidavit, and this is the error complained of. The affidavit is a naked effort to stop the sale of the property without offering to rescind or praying for partition, or setting up any equity of any sort. Whatever may be the rights of the family under a proper bill filed or equitable pleadings at law, we are not called upon to adjudicate, as there is no equity set up in this affidavit; but it is an effort to stop the sale of the mortgaged property under the levy of thefi.fa., without offering to divide, or rescind, or to pay, or to do anything else that equitable principles would demand. *206There certainly was no error in dismissing such an affidavit and ordering the execution to proceed, and the judgment is affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.