Carter v. Pickett
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Frror from District Court, Jefferson County; . Frank M. Bailey, Judge. Petition of Mrs.. B. A. Carter against C. J. Pickett, administrator of P. D. 'Carter, to set aside the homestead. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
SHARP, C.
Assuming, as contended for by plaintiff in error, that the eight lots in the town of Ryan- constituted, during his lifetime, the homestead of the husband of plaintiff in error, and that at his death said homestead passed to the plaintiff in error, as his surviving wife, as was held in Holmes v. Holmes et al., 27 Okla. 140, 111 Pac. 220, 30 L. R. A. (N. S.) 920, has. the plaintiff in error by her subsequent acts abandoned her right to said lots as a homestead? This is the single question necessary to be determined in this case. The question of abandonment is one of fact.…
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