Roulston v. Hall
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Garland Circuit Court. A. M. Dueeie, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant brought suit in ejectment against appellee, claiming title to, and right to possession of, an undivided one half of lot 9, and south half of lot 8, in block 3 of Smith’s addition to Hot Springs, in Garland county, Ark., and claiming rents therefor.
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Appeal from Garland Circuit Court. A. M. Dueeie, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant brought suit in ejectment against appellee, claiming title to, and right to possession of, an undivided one half of lot 9, and south half of lot 8, in block 3 of Smith’s addition to Hot Springs, in Garland county, Ark., and claiming rents therefor. Appellee denied appellant’s title and right to possession, claimed the property as a homestead, claimed title under and from Smith and wife to herself and her husband, Ben Hall, from whom the appellant also claimed to deraign title through said Ben Hall.…
1Opinion of the Court
Hughes, J.,
(after stating the facts.) The contention of the appellant is that the judgment of- the court should have been for him for an undivided one-half interest in the property, as prayed for, and for $101.25 rent, as per verdict of the jury. Appellee, as we understand, contends that the, land was a homestead, and that Ben Hall, while her husband, conveyed the land to appellant, and that she did not join in the conveyance, which is therefore void, and that, if not entitled to hold the property as a homestead, the court correctly decreed her one-third interest for her natural life in the…
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