Inman v. Goodson

MADDOX, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment declaring that an option to sell property which was the homestead of the grantor and his wife was void because the option was not signed by the wife.

Plaintiffs Napolean and Lena Bell Good-son are husband and wife. They were married in 1937. They own approximately fifty-six acres of land in Autauga County, Alabama. Mr. Goodson acquired approximately twenty acres of the property in 1944, and in 1949, the Goodsons constructed their home on this property. Thereafter, in 1953, they acquired an additional twenty acres as tenants in common, and, in…