Lewis v. White
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Wilkinson county. Hon. Claude Pintard, Chancellor. On the 9th day of'July, 1891, the appellee, W. N. White, filed the hill in this case against the appellants, F. D. Lewis, sheriff of Wilkinson county, and Gr. W. I8ente.il, and others.
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From the chancery court of Wilkinson county. Hon. Claude Pintard, Chancellor. On the 9th day of'July, 1891, the appellee, W. N. White, filed the hill in this case against the appellants, F. D. Lewis, sheriff of Wilkinson county, and Gr. W. I8ente.il, and others. The bill alleges that the complainant is tlm owner in fee of an undivided one-sixth interest in a certain tract of land in Wilkinson county, containing about three hundred and thirty-six acres, and in a certain other tract of about three hundred and eighty-five acres, aggregating seven hundred and twenty-one acres; that said lands…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
It has several times been said by this court, in general terms, that a tenant in common may maintain his claim to his homestead exemption in the common estate. The requirements of the litigation presented in this cause demand of us a fuller and more particular annunciation of the law governing cases of claims of homestead exemptions by one of the tenants in common in the undivided property.
1. The execution creditor has no concern with the title of the tenant in common whose estate he is seeking to subject to his demand. If the debtor has good title to an undivided *355interest in the common…
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