Aultman, Miller & Co. v. Price

Citations

• 68 Kan. 640
• 75 P. 1019
• 1904 Kan. LEXIS 154

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Homestead and Exemptions — Rights of Family of Deceased— “ Family ” Defined. The owner and his wife occupied eighty acres of farming land as their homestead. The husband died and the widow continued to occupy the land as a homestead. Their children had all arrived at the age of majority and lived in homes of their own. Held, that the widow was “the family of the owner,” and as such was entitled to hold the homestead, exempt from the payment of the debts of her deceased husband as long as she continued so to occupy it.</p>