Browning v. Barber

1. A head of a .family may alienate his “ reversionary interest ” in a homestead set apart to him and his family under the constitution of 1868. Walker v. Hodges, 113 Ga. 1042 (39 S. E. 480); Carrie v. Carnes, 145 Ga. 184 (88 S. E. 949); Yeates v. Donalson, 147 Ga. 335 (94 S. E. 465); Aiken v. Weldon, 139 Ga. 15 (76 S. E. 359).

2. Where a husband pays the purchase-money of land from his own funds and has the land conveyed to his wife, the presumption which the law raises is that the husband intended to make a gift to his wife; but the presumption is a rebuttable one, and a resulting trust in…