Etheridge v. WEBB

Ethridge, C.

Appellant attacks a deed executed by his wife to her home. He asserts that he had not abandoned it as his homestead. We hold that he had voluntarily separated from her, and that the conveyance is valid.

R. W. Etheridge, appellant and complainant below, seeks to cancel a deed to a house and lot in Louisville, Mississippi, executed by his wife, Mrs. Bernice Etheridge, appellee and one of the defendants in the trial court. He says that in a legal sense he was living with his wife at the time of the conveyance, their separation being her fault, the property was his homestead, and hence…