Tappan Bros. & Co. v. Hunt
Tappan Bros. & Co. v. Hunt
Opinion of the Court
The defendant in error applied for homestead and exemption in certain lands.
If the land which an applicant for homestead and exemption seeks to have set apart to himself has been purchased by a person under a sheriff’s sale, by virtue of ah execution and judgment against the applicant, which judgment is founded upon a contract made by the applicant with the plaintiff in execution, such purchaser occupies the position of a creditor of the applicant, and he may urge any objection to the grant of the application which the creditors might have done. It is too manifest for argument that the creditor might object to the grant of the homestead and exemption, that the applicant had waived his right to take the same in his favor, and such is the ruling of this court in 43 Ga., 418, See also Code, §2010.
. The purchaser has all the rights of the creditor.
Judgment reversed.
The application for homestead was under the constitution of 1877.
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