West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 1879

Holt v. Williams

Holt v. Williams
West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals · Decided April 26, 1879 · Green, Haymond, Johnson, Moore
13 W. Va. 704; 1879 W. Va. LEXIS 3

Holt v. Williams

Opinion of the Court

Moore, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the Court:

The Court is of opinion, that under the principles decided in the case of Joseph Spiedel & Co. v. Schlosser et al., at this term, that as to the trust debt, the declaration of homestead was not made and recorded in time to give the appellants the right to claim, the benefit of homestead as against said debt, either under the act of December 20, 1876, or or under the act of March 2, 1877; and therefore the Court did not err in dissolving the injunction. The order dissolving the injunction should be affirmed with costs.

GREEN, PRESIDENT, AND HAYMOND, CONCURRED.

Dissenting Opinion

Johnson, J.,

dissented to so much of the opinion and syllabus as relates to the constitutional questions involved in the case.

Decree afpirked.

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