Armor v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Crawford Circuit Court — Row. ,L. B. Woodside, Judge. The law of 1895 left the remainder after the "homestead subject to the payment of the homesteaders’ debts. Broyles v. Cos, 153 Mo. 242; In re Powell’s Estate, 157 Mo. 151. Under the Law of 1875 the probate court could sell the remainder after homestead before the expiration of homestead.
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Appeal from Crawford Circuit Court — Row. ,L. B. Woodside, Judge. The law of 1895 left the remainder after the "homestead subject to the payment of the homesteaders’ debts. Broyles v. Cos, 153 Mo. 242; In re Powell’s Estate, 157 Mo. 151. Under the Law of 1875 the probate court could sell the remainder after homestead before the expiration of homestead. Eeene v. Wyatt, 160 Mo. 1, overruling Broyles v. Cox, 153 Mo. 242, and In re Powell’s Estate, 157 Mo. 151; Robbins v. Boni-ware, 190 Mo. 33; Balance v. Cordon, 247 Mo. 119. After the death of the homesteader the widow and minor children take a…
1Opinion of the CourtLamm, C. J.
Plaintiffs are heirs and descendants and devisees of dfeceased heirs of S. H. Headlee, deceased. Some of defendants are children and heirs and some husbands of daughters of John W. Lewis, deceased. The suit, one to determine and adjudge title to real estate in Crawford county, is bottomed on former section 650, now Section 2535, Revised Statutes 1909.
Attend to the facts and circumstances: In November, 1896, John W. Lewis died seized of the farm in dispute as a homestead, with other land not subject to homestead, leaving a widow and six minor children. In 1899, by a proceeding in the probate…
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