Cannon v. Ferrell

The point involved here is whether a widow may, for the first time since the death of her husband thirteen years ago, claim as a homestead property on which neither she nor her husband was living at the time of his death, with the evidence leading to the conclusion that she had previously elected to take other property as her homestead.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Cannon were married in 1932 and moved to his home on a forty acre farm, which is now the subject of this litigation. Subsequently, Cannon’s health failed and he was unable to carry on the farming operation. Mrs. Cannon bought a one acre plot…