Court Opinion

ID: 7155393
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:06:51.949226+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:15:13.789437
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
Judge Hines :
The only question we need to consider is whether the court erred in refusing to allot appellant a homestead.
About the 1st of February, 1874, appellant owned a house and lot and occupied it with his family. Prior to the 12th of February, 1874, he sold the house and lot on time and purchased the house and lot in which the homestead is claimed, and paid therefor in a stock of dry goods. The last purchase was made subsequent to the creation of the debts to appellees, and was not in any sense such an exchange of one exempt piece of property for another as would cause the exemption in the first to attach to the last. The absolute sale of the first piece of property operated to destroy the homestead, and ex*462emption did not follow the purchase-price or attach to the dwelling subsequently purchased.

W. H. Cord, for appellant.

W. S. Botts, Thomas Givens, for appellees.

We perceive nothing in the other assignment of errors that requires a response.
Judgment affirmed.