Schoenheider v. Tuengel

Citations

• 96 Wash. 103
• 164 P. 748
• 1917 Wash. LEXIS 885

Syllabus

<p>Homesteads — Residence—Evidence —■ Sueeiciency. Under Rem. Code, § 552, a homestead must be actually intended and used as a home; and the evidence is insufficient to support a claim of homestead by a widower, as head of a family consisting of a minor son and adult dependent daughter, where it appears that he built a small shack upon unimproved land after judgment recovered against him, and for two years spent' but very brief periods on the land with his daughter, who was able to support herself, and that his son, who was twenty years of age, had never been upon the land and had no intention of living there.</p>