MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.
The facts bearing upon the questions presented by this appeal are these: On his voluntary petition Oscar M. Hartzell, a resident of Madison County, Iowa, was adjudged a bankrupt. He owned 960 acres of land in that county, 40 acres of which he and his family had been and were occupying as a homestead. Three mortgages in terms covering all the land had been given by him — the first to Emma Johnson,...
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