Michigan Supreme Court, 1869

Shoemaker v. Gardner

Shoemaker v. Gardner
Michigan Supreme Court · Decided July 12, 1869
19 Mich. 96; 1869 Mich. LEXIS 31
Shoemaker v. Gardner

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Opinion of the Court

The Court

held that the wife was a proper party to a bill filed by a husband to protect the homestead; and that if the case made by the bill had shown the mortgaged premises to be a homestead as defined by law, the decree of the Court below would have been affirmed. The case, however, was defectively stated in this: — that the bill did not aver that the value of the premises, claimed as a homestead, did not exceed the sum of $1,500. The Court therefore reversed the decree; but as the proceedings in other respects seemed unexceptionable, the case was remanded, with leave to the complainants to amend their bill.

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