Williams v. Hall

Citations

• 33 Tex. 212

Syllabus

<p>1. A rural homestead (uuder the Constitution of 1845) -might consist ofi separate parcels ot land. The two hundred acres need not lie in one body. The cases of Hancock v. Morgan, (17 Texas, 583,) and Pryor r. Stone, (19 Texas, 371,) cited by the court, and the reasoning therein re;specting the urban homestead, held to be equally applicable to the rural homestead.</p> <p>S'. A widow, showing her right to allowances and exemptions from the estate of her deceased husband, and that the property of the estate had haen sold by the administrator, without regard to her rights, consented that the notes taken by the administrator for the property should he set-apart to her, instead of the specific property or its money equivalent. Held, that it was not error to decree such relief, substantial justice being thereby accomplished.</p> <p>3. The right of a surviving wife to exempted personal property, and to the homestead, is paramount to ail.ordinary claims against the estate. .' .</p>