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113 Ala. 529

Lackland v. Rogers

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided November 15, 1896

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1896-11-15

Contest of a Claim of Homestead Exemption. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Clarke. The object of this proceeding was to contest a claim of homestead exemptions, under sections 2520 and 2521 of the Code of 1886. The appellant had obtained judgment against the ap-pellee in a justice’s court, upon which execution was issued, and, in default of personal property sufficient to satisfy the execution, the process was levied upon certain real estate, as the property of appellee.

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 1927

4 state decisions

Relies on Sherry v. Brown · Toenes v. Moog

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Decided 1896-11-15

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McCLELLAN, J.

¶1Under statutory provisions having reference to proceedings when an execution from a justice’s court is levied on land, and to the time and manner of interposing a claim of exemption of the land so levied on, as the homestead of the defendant, it is settled by the decisions of this court that such claim is effectually waived and lost as against such execution unless it be interposed before air order for the sale of the land is made by the circuit court.-Sherry v. Brown, 66 Ala. 51; Toenes v. Moog, 78 Ala. 558.

¶2The claim of homestead exemption was not made in this case until long after the order of sale had been entered by the circuit court. It came too late : and on the issue of exemption vel non the court should have given the affirmative charge requested by the plaintiff in execution.

¶3Reversed and remanded.

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