Joyner v. Sugg.

This is a petition to rehear and review the judgment of this Court rendered at the last term in the above-entitled case. It involves a matter of the greatest importance, as it relates to the ever recurring question of the extent of the homestead right, and requires us to declare and decide what is the nature and characteristics of that creature of the Constitution known as the homestead, and what right in or control or dominion over it the owner has and enjoys under the terms of the instrument by which it was brought into existence.

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