Tanner v. Tanner

Citations

• 111 Miss. 460
• 71 So. 749

Syllabus

<p>1. Homstead. Necessity of occupancy as homestead. Amount and value. JRigfit to choose. Exemptions. Character of estate. Use of land. Evidence. Sufficiency.</p> <p>The test as to whether or not land is a homestead is its use for homestead purposes, the law does not exempt to every head of a. family who lives in the country one hundred and sixty acres of land worth not more than three thousand dollars but only land actually occupied as a homestead.</p> <p>2. Homestead. Right to choose.</p> <p>The head of the household has the right to choose the homestead, and ownership in fee simple of the homestead is not essential.</p> <p>R. Homestead. XJse of land. Evidence. Sufficiency.</p> <p>Where the evidence showed that a householder occupied one tract of land and occasionally got wood off of a forty-acre tract of wild unfenced land about three quarters of a mile distant for household purposes, it was insufficient to show use of the forty-acre tract as a homestead.</p>