Neel v. First Federal Savings & Loan Assoc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that wife was entitled to full $40,000 homestead exemption on her undivided one-half interest in the homestead property
• “If the application sought would be retroactive in effect, then to validate such an application, a legislative intent for it to operate in such a manner must exist.”
• “when a claim on a contract is reduced to judgment, ‘[t]he contract between the parties is voluntarily surrendered and canceled by merger in the judgment and ceases to exist.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).