Cooper v. Cooper

Opinion op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson—

Affirming-.

The question presented here is whether appellant was entitled to hold the tract of land in controversy exempt from execution as a homestead. The facts are these: Appellant’s father died on April 23, 1920, a resident of Magoffin county, the owner of a boundary of land in that county and leaving- the appellant and his six brothers and sisters as his sole heirs at law. The land was divided between the seven children in September, 1921, and the tract in controversy was set anart and conveyed to appellant. In the year 1923, appellant filed a…