Hinds v. Buck

Mb. Special Judge FbaNk T. Fahcheb

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This petition for certiorari is to review the decree of the Court of Appeals affirming the decree of the chancellor, holding that Emma Hinds, widow of James Hinds, is entitled to homestead in fifty acres of land purchased by James Hinds, deceased, January 1, 1926. The land is valued at less than $1,000. At the time of the purchase by James Hinds, he had a wife and three children.

His wife, Emma Hinds, was then an inmate of the East Tennessee Hospital for the Insane and still remains there, a person hopelessly insane. The…