Bloch v. Tarrent's Admr.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
CASE 16 — ACTION BY A. BLOCH AGAINST J. T. TARRENT’S ADMINISTRATOR AND OTHERS TO SUBJECT THE HOMESTEAD OF DECEDENT TO THE PAYMENT OF HIS DEBT. — February 27. Appeal from Simpson Circuit Court. "W. P. SaNdidge, Circuit Judge. From a judgment of dismissal, plaintiff appeals.
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CASE 16 — ACTION BY A. BLOCH AGAINST J. T. TARRENT’S ADMINISTRATOR AND OTHERS TO SUBJECT THE HOMESTEAD OF DECEDENT TO THE PAYMENT OF HIS DEBT. — February 27. Appeal from Simpson Circuit Court. "W. P. SaNdidge, Circuit Judge. From a judgment of dismissal, plaintiff appeals. We submit, that where a widow remarries and moves away from her deceased husband’s homestead to her second husband’s home, owned by him, to live there for life, she thereby takes another permanent home, and acquires in and to it an inchoate homestead right, which she would be entitled to hold in oase of his death, and if…
1Opinion of the Court
0iNioN by
Chief Justice Hobson
— Reversing.
Some years ago J. T. Tarrent died intestate, a resident of Simp-son county, the owner of a small farm w'orth. less than $1,000. He left surviving him a widow and two children. Some time after his death his widow married John Butts, who lived about seven miles away from the home of her former husband on a farm of his own. Since her marriage with Butts she has made his farm her home; the children residing there with her. The evidence shows that she has made the home of her second husband her permanent residence, and that she no longer occupies the home…
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