White Sewing Machine Co. v. Wooster
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Franklin Chancery Court. Thomas B. Martin, Chancellor. A husband has no right of homestead in the lands of his wife. Const. (1874), art. 9, §§ 3—6. No homestead is allowed to a person after ceasing to be the head of a family. Freeman, Ex. § 240. Occupancy is essential to the claim. 29 Ark. 401; 31 ib. 466; 42 ib. 175; 51 ib. 87. A home is necessary to a homestead exemption.
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Appeal from Franklin Chancery Court. Thomas B. Martin, Chancellor. A husband has no right of homestead in the lands of his wife. Const. (1874), art. 9, §§ 3—6. No homestead is allowed to a person after ceasing to be the head of a family. Freeman, Ex. § 240. Occupancy is essential to the claim. 29 Ark. 401; 31 ib. 466; 42 ib. 175; 51 ib. 87. A home is necessary to a homestead exemption. Freeman, Ex. § 241. A mere aggregation of individuals is not a family. 42 Ark. 539. A tenant by curtesy can claim homestead. Thomps. Horn. & Ex. § 174; 79 111. 456; 54 Ark. 9; 56 Ark. 621. The husband did not…
1Opinion of the CourtBunn, C. J.
This is a .bill in the Faulkner chancery court by the appellees against the appellant company to remove a cloud upon plaintiff’s title to lots Nos. 11, 12, 23 and 24 in block 26 of Robinson’s plan of the town of Conway, Faulkner county, Arkansas. Decree for plaintiffs, and the defendant appealed to this court.
Narcissa Wooster departed this life on the 25th of October, 1896, leaving surviving her her husband, J. P. Wooster, Sr., and her and his children, J. P. Wooster, Jr., aged 27 or 28 years; Mrs. Mary Ellen Gellenwater, aged 25 years; and Mrs. Annie L. Tate, aged 22 years,—and seized of the…
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