Womble v. Moncure Mill & Gin Co.

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• holding the surviving spouse, as life tenant of homestead and “enjoying the fruits, rents, and revenues thereof, cannot charge the reversioner with the cost of repairs.”
• constitutional life estate holder is entitled to rents earned during his life
• “[l]t is clear to us that the homestead right in land contains every element of a life estate, and is therefore at least in the nature of a legal life estate, or, in other, words, a life estate created by operation of law.”
• finding life tenant responsible for payment of current taxes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).