Ganus v. Sullivan

On Application for Rehearing

MERRILL, Justice.

Appellee has favored us with a scholarly study of the homestead laws of Alabama in brief on application for rehearing and urges that our opinion as to the meaning of the second sentence of § 661, Tit. 7, Code 1940, as amended, is not sound. We are still of the opinion that the Legislature intended by that provision that the widow and minor children of a decedent should have a life interest in the homestead of a decedent zvithout limit as to value, when the homestead did not exceed 160 acres in area and where there were no debts, or if there were…