Creath v. Dale

69 Mo. 41

• Court: Supreme Court of Missouri
• Decided: October 15, 1878
• Status: Published

Opinion

Sherwood, C. J.

The motion to quash that portion of the sheriff’s return relating to the setting off" of the homestead, should have prevailed. The debt which was the basis of the judgment on which the execution in question issued, was contracted prior to the acquisition of the farm whereon the execution was levied. Defendant, therefore, was not entitled to homestead in the land levied on. Farra v. Quigly, 57 Mo. 284; and the motion to quash was an appropriate way of reaching the unwarranted exemption.

And there is an additional reason why the laud claimed as a homestead was not exempt from execution — the note on which plaintiff obtained judgment, was given by defendant in part payment for a farm bought of plaintiff', by defendant, and exchanged by him for the farm on which he now claims a homestead; and as he could not have asserted against the debt of plaintiff' a homestead right in the first farm, no more could he assert such right in the second farm. 1 Wag. Stat., § 8, p. 699.

Judgment reversed and cause remanded.

All concur.

Reversed.