Taree v. Spriggs

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Settle

Reversing.

This is an appeal from a judgment of* the Caldwell circuit court, refusing appellant a homestead in a house and lot, alleged to have been owned and occupied as a residence by her deceased husband, Thomas Hollowell and family, including herself, at the time of his death. As originally brought the action was one of ejectment, in which appellant sought to recover the possession of the property, upon the alleged ground that she was the owner thereof, arid that appellee was wrongfully in possession of same. Appellant, however, later filed an *21amended…