Johns v. Cannon

— The abstract question of law involved on this appeal is whether or not a widow who would otherwise be entitled to homestead rights in the lands of her deceased husband would lose or forfeit such rights by intermarrying with a *139nonresident and removing with him from the state, pending proceedings to have her homestead rights allotted to her, and afterwards, but before the consummation of such proceedings, returning with her husband to reside in the state. We feel no .doubt that this question is correctly answered in the negative. The concrete case presented by the appeal is that appellee was…