Borrow v. Miller

Citations

• 92 Wash. 143
• 158 P. 735

Syllabus

<p>Homestead — Selection—Persons Entitled. Under Rem. & Bal. Code, §§ 528 to 561, defining homesteads and the “head of a family” entitled to claim the same, and providing a method of selection by the filing of a declaration, from which time the premises constitute a homestead, the qualifications necessary under the statute must exist at the time the declaration is filed; hence, upon the death of a wife, the widower who was not then the “head of a family” as defined by statute cannot claim a homestead.</p>