Forsgard v. Ford’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district · 14 state decisions

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1. ““The facts as found * * * with reference to the half of lot 4 are * * * that the lot 4 fronted on Bridge street 25 feet, with a two-story house upon it, covering the entire front and running back 85 feet. Under the entire house * * " was a cellar. The first floor above the cellar was divided into three rooms, by running a partition across the house 25 feet from the front, and another partition dividing the front into two rooms fronting on the street. The Court of Civil Appeals finds that the entire lot under the house is exempted as homestead by reason of its use; that the rear room on the first floor and the second story are likewise exempted, but that the two front rooms on the first floor are not exempted — they having been abandoned as a homestead and rented out for other uses. The question presented is: Can a part of a house, standing on a lot that is homestead, be subjected to forced sale under our Constitution and laws? The house upon lot 5 was a fixture within the meaning of the law, and as such was a part of the land itself. A sale of the land would carry the house and every part of it. * * * The house being attached to and a part of the realty, could not be seized and sold separately from the land. * * * The Constitution * * * (article 16, § 51) defines an urban homestead in this language: ‘The homestead in a city, town, or village, shall consist of lot or lots not to exceed in value $5,000 at the time of their designation as a homestead, without reference to the va”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dunn v. Eckhardt