Jean v. Dee

Citations

• 5 Wash. 580
• 32 P. 460
• 1893 Wash. LEXIS 27

Syllabus

<p>PUBLIC LANDS — HOMESTEADS — LIABILITY FOR ANTECEDENT DEBTS — VOID JUDICIAL SALE —EJECTMENT.</p> <p>Lands acquired under the homestead laws of the United States are not subject to attachment or execution for the patentee’s debts contracted prior to the acquirement of title, irrespective of the continued occupancy of the granted land by the patentee.</p> <p>Where lands acquired under the United States homestead laws have been sold under execution upon a judgment for a debt of the patentee antedating his patent, and the purchaser and his successors have gone into possession under the sheriff’s deed, ejectment may be maintained by the grantee of the patentee, although the patentee was not occupying said land as a homestead at the time of its sale upon execution.</p>