Kidd v. Lester

Warner, Chief Justice.

The only question made by the record in this case is whether a widow, who has no children living with her dependent on her for support, is entitled to a homestead out of the property of her deceased husband, as the head of a family, according to the true intent and meaning of the Constitution of 1868. The manifest intention of the Constitution was to provide for the families of minor children, and to authorize the applicant to have a homestead he or she must be the head of a family, or guardian, or trustee of a family of minor children, and this intention is the more…