Stowell v. Kerr

Citations

• 72 Kan. 330
• 83 P. 827
• 1905 Kan. LEXIS 348

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>1. Homesteads — Equitable Title — Exemption. A homestead ex- ■ emption may be claimed by a debtor in land to which he has only the equitable title, where he occupies the land with his family as a home.</p> <p>2. -Purchase — Intention—Subsisting Judgment. Where land is purchased with the definite intention of making it a homestead, and immediately afterward the purchaser and his family go into possession of the same and continue to occupy it as their homestead, a judgment subsisting against him at the time of the purchase will not become a lien thereon.</p>