Richardson v. Pierce

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• finding that entire city lot, including a portion on which the defendant first conducted his mercantile business and a portion which he later bought and built his home upon, constituted the homestead
• stating “[t]his view of the law certainly works no injustice to the creditor where the value of the homestead, including the shop or store used for the business convenience of the owner, is small, as it is here, the whole of the value of $900”
• not considering the presence of a fence and gates separating the residence from a mercantile store in the Court’s analysis of whether the owner manifested an intent to abandon a portion of the homestead for business use

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).