Hinds v. Morgan
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Washington county. Hon. A. H. Longino, Chancellor. Appellant, Robert Hinds, in 1891 was a married man, the head of a family and the owner of a tract of land containing two hundred and forty acres. His father, Thomas Hinds, owned four hundred acres of land contiguous to a portion of the son’s tract.
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From the chancery court of Washington county. Hon. A. H. Longino, Chancellor. Appellant, Robert Hinds, in 1891 was a married man, the head of a family and the owner of a tract of land containing two hundred and forty acres. His father, Thomas Hinds, owned four hundred acres of land contiguous to a portion of the son’s tract. Robert, having leased the same, had his residence and lived with his family upon a forty acre tract of his father’s land, which adjoins his own, and he cultivated and controlled the lands of both as one farm. Robert and Thomas, in the early part of said year,■ applied to…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, C. J.
The evolution of the law of homestead exemptions in this state presents a most striking and interesting study to the legal mind. By legislative enactment and judicial interpretation alike, the growth has been steady along lines most liberal in favor of those for whose protection and benefit homestead exemptions have been declared. It is, and from an early day in the history of our jurisprudence has been, the public policy of this state to preserve the homes of families, and, moreover, to insure to the heads of families, residing in their homes, the means of procuring a subsistence for the…
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