Howell v. Jones

The question presented in this record is as to whether a widow is entitled to home*403stead in property owned by her deceased husband, but which, at the time of his death, was in the actual occupancy of the widow of his father, it having been assigned to her as a homestead. Can there be two homesteads in the same land at the same time ? Under our Act of 1879, it is not essential to the right of homestead that the claimant should be in the actual occupancy. So may a homestead be assigned in an estate for life. 9 Lea, 548. By express statute it exists in equitable estates. 13 Lea, 622. But a…