Stayton v. Halpern

50 Ark. 329

• Court: Supreme Court of Arkansas
• Decided: November 15, 1887
• Status: Published

Opinion

Cockrill, C. J.

The question arose upon demurrer to the answer of the appellee, who was sued by the appellants in ejectment, and is thus stated by the appellee’s counsel:

“ Can the fee to real estate be sold by order of the probate court, upon the petition of an administrator, for the payment of the debts of his intestate, subject to the homestead right of a minor child, under the constitution of 1874 ?”

McCloy v. Arnett, 47 Ark., 445, where the subject is fully treated, answers a similar question, which arose under the homestead provisions of the constitution of 1868, in the negative. The policy of exempting the homestead from sale after the death of the debtor for the benefit of the widow and the minor children, was continued by the constitution of 1874 without abating the right as it existed under the constitution of 1868 and the act of 1852. Garibaldi v. Jones, 48 Ark., 236; Art 9, sec. 6, Const. 1874. The case of MeCloy v. Arnett, therefore, controls this. See too Nichols v. Shearon, 49 Id., 75.

Reverse the judgment and remand the cause, with instructions to sustain the demurrer.