Burns v. Ford

J. Seaborn Holt, Associate Justice.

Appellee as administratrix in succession, on October 4, 1954, obtained a judgment for $3,500 in a tort action against appellant, Catherine Burns, and caused execution to issue. A levy was made on Lots 5 and 6, Block 21, Brack’s Addition to the City of Little Rock, which property appellant scheduled as exempt claiming it to be her homestead. A traverse was entered by appellee and on a hearing the trial court, March 16, .1955, denied appellant’s schedule on the ground that at the time she purchased the property levied on, she was not the head of a family and…