Ashabranner v. Pearlstein

John A. Fog lemán, Justice.

This appeal comes from a judgment denying a homestead exemption of the proceeds of the sale of a homestead by appellant’s decedent in his lifetime.

Earl W. Johnson, a widower, whose children were all adults, sold his homestead in July 1967. He deposited the proceeds in his bank account. There is no doubt that the balance in the decedent’s bank account at the time of his death consisted of whatever remained of the proceeds of sale. Johnson had drawn certain checks against the bank account into which nothing except these proceeds had been deposited. Appellant, his…