Pribble v. Hall
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 11 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM PENDLETON CHANCERY COURT. 1. The appellant is not bound by the deed to the Hunts, because it was not acknowledged by her as required by law. 2. A husband can not sell and convey all the real estate he has, and deprive his wife and children of the possession against her consent. The object of the homestead exemption is for the benefit of the family —the wife and children.
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Case 11 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL PROM PENDLETON CHANCERY COURT. 1. The appellant is not bound by the deed to the Hunts, because it was not acknowledged by her as required by law. 2. A husband can not sell and convey all the real estate he has, and deprive his wife and children of the possession against her consent. The object of the homestead exemption is for the benefit of the family —the wife and children. A deed conveying the homestead, executed by the husband alone, is as invalid, as to the homestead, as a mortgage executed by him without his wife joining with him therein. A mortgage and…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE COFER
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant brought this suit in equity against her husband James V. Pribble, the appellee Samuel W. Hall, and M. A. and Fanny Hunt. She alleged that she intermarried with her present husband in 1853, and that they had ever *63since continued to live together as husband and wife; that some years ago the father of her husband died, leaving a tract of land which descended to his heirs; that she was possessed of a small sum of money, derived in part from the estate of her father, and the residue from her personal earnings, and with said money…
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