Barnes & Co. v. Buchanan

Citations

• 108 Miss. 822
• 67 So. 462

Syllabus

<p>Homestead. Liabilities enforceable. Decree in equity.</p> <p>Specific liens fixed by the decrees of courts of equity have no-greater force upon homestead rights than judgments pronounced by, and executions issuing from, law courts, and where plaintiff conveyed land to his brother, defendants, his creditors, secured a decree cancelling the deed on the ground that the conveyance was fraudulent as to them, and had a commissioner appointed to sell the land to satisfy this debt and thereupon plaintiff married after the rendition of the decree, but before sale under it, and moved on the land; and occupied and claimed a .homestead therein, his claim was valid and the creditor’s right was subject to his homestead exemption.</p>