Ivory v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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1. ““Under the circumstances of this case, we are of the opinion that we should follow the precedent set by the supreme court of Texas in a like ease. We are the more inclined to this because it is all that the complainant asks, and because, under the facts, the demand of the defendants for an additional homestead, in view of their representations and affidavit to induce the complainant to part with his money, is inequitable, and tends to operate a fraud upon the complainant; and, while we recognize the public policy of the state of Texas, as declared in its constitution, in favor of the exemption of homesteads from forced sales generally, we do not think that the present is a case calling upon us to invent new precedents, or to stretch the general rules of equity, in order to give the defendants a homestead for which, by the record, they have not paid, and which, under the law, may be, and ought to be, sold to satisfy a just debt.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Watkins v. Little