Chatman v. Poindexter

Citations

• 101 Miss. 496
• 58 So. 361

Syllabus

<p>1. Homestead. Conveyances. Validity. Code 1906. Sec. 2159-2156.</p> <p>A conveyance of the homestead by the husband living with his wife thereon, to the wife and other grantees is under Code 1906, Sec. 2159, so providing invalid as to the grantees therein other than the wife unless signed by the wife.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>The fact that such deed was executed in payment of a claim against the grantor for labor “done and performed” and that un-, der Sec. 2156, Code 1906, the land conveyed was not exempt from execution, does not dispense with the necessity of the wife’s signature to the deed.</p>