Rountree v. Dennard

Jackson, Judge.

Rountree was the guardian of one minor child, who was the only child left by his father, and the question on appeal from the ordinary was whether such one child was entitled to a homestead and exemption as a family of minor children would have been entitled to under the constitution and laws, and whether the guardian could have the same set apart for the benefit of one child just as for a family of more than one, if more had survived the father.

The court charged the jury that one child could not constitute a family of minor children in the sense of those words in the…