Aiken v. Weldon

1. This case is controlled by the ruling in Humtress v. Anderson, 110 Ga. 427 (35 S. E. 671, 78 Am. St. R. 105), where the decision in Love v. Anderson, 89 Ga. 612 (16 S. E. 68), was reviewed and overruled, and it was held that “a deed executed by the head of a family, purporting to convey land which had been . . set apart as a homestead under the constitution of 1868, while inoperative and ineffectual as to the homestead estate in existence when it was made, did pass to the grantee the ‘reversionary interest’ of the grantor in the land described.” This decision has since been followed.…