Thompson v. King
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Monroe Circuit Court in Chancery. M. T. Sanders, Judge. Action by Maggie Thompson, a minor, against her stepfather, William King, and his children, Rorriey and Ida King, for an accounting of her share in the rents and profits accruing from her mother’s homestead estate in certain land of which she died seized jointly with another. The court sustained a demurrer to the complaint. i.
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APPEAL from Monroe Circuit Court in Chancery. M. T. Sanders, Judge. Action by Maggie Thompson, a minor, against her stepfather, William King, and his children, Rorriey and Ida King, for an accounting of her share in the rents and profits accruing from her mother’s homestead estate in certain land of which she died seized jointly with another. The court sustained a demurrer to the complaint. i. The curtesy of King is not superior to the homestead right of the children, but the latter, which is a constitutional right, must prevail. Art. 9, secs. 3, 6, 10, const. 1874. A married woman has a…
1Opinion of the Court
Battle J.
Mary Thompson was the owner in fee simple of one undivided half of the southwest quarter of section 36, in township 1 north, and in range 3 west. She was the mother of Maggie Thompson. Three years after the birth of Maggie she married William King. Two children, Romey and Ida King, were the issue of this marriage. At the time of her marriage she occupied this land as her homestead, and after her marriage she and her husband and children continued to occupy it in the same manner so long as she lived. She died intestate, leaving her husband surviving, and Maggie Thompson and Romey and…
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