Rowe v. Gose

George Rose Smith, Justice.

This is a suit brought by the appellee, H. H. Gose, against the appellants, James L. Rowe and wife, for specific performance of a contract by which Rowe agreed to sell a house and lot in Springdale to Gose for $18,750. In the court below the Rowes asserted that the contract was void because it involved their homestead and was not signed by Mrs. Rowe. Under our statute the wife’s failure to join in the contract renders it absolutely void with respect to the homestead. Ark. Stat. Ann. § 50-415 (1947); Pipkin v. Williams, 57 Ark. 242, 21 S. W. 433, 38 Am. St. Rep. 241…