Spaulding v. Haley
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Randolph Chancery Court; George T. Humphries, Chancellor; 1. The widow is not entitled to homestead in the land conveyed by Towle. C. E. Spaulding held the lands under contract of purchase only.
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Appeal from Randolph Chancery Court; George T. Humphries, Chancellor; 1. The widow is not entitled to homestead in the land conveyed by Towle. C. E. Spaulding held the lands under contract of purchase only. The word “owner” used in the statute, Kirby’s Digest, § 3882, means one holding an absolute title in fee simple. 21 Ore. 339; 201 111. 292; 30 N. Y. 1040; 112 Ala. 539; 113 Ga. 357; 116 Ga. 942; 106 Cal. 355; 6 Words & Phrases, 5151; 6 Hun (N. Y.)- 553; 88 Wis. 672; 6 Tex. 303; 25 Pac. 415; 2 O. Dec. 391. 2. If the widow is entitled to homestead at all, it can not exceed one acre. Art. IX,…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCulloch, C. J.
This case involves a controversy between the widow and the children of C. E. Spaulding, deceased, as to the right of the widow to claim homestead and dower in lands of the deceased husband and father. For several years before his death in the year 1904, C. E. Spaulding owned and occupied as his place of residence one acre of land, described as an acre lying in a square in the southeast corner of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 18, T. 19, R. 2 W., in Randolph County, Arkansas. This lot, it appears, was in the outskirts of an unincorporated village called Kings-ville;…
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