Crowder v. Philips

Buford

(dissenting). — I am unable to concur in some of the views expressed in the majority opinion.

It is my opinion that a freeholder is one who holds the immediate beneficial ownership interest, legal or equitable, in the fee simple title to real estate, regardless of the character of the real estate and that, therefore, the fee simple owner of a homestead is a freeholder, although such homestead real estate is by the terms of the Constitution exempt from taxation.

Section 6, Article IX, of the Constitution, inter alia, provides:

“The Legislature shall have power to provide for issuing State…