Case ID: ohio-np_4/html/0366-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "McNEILL, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(Hamilton County Court of Insolvency.)
    STERRITT, ASSIGNEE v. LINGO et al.
    A widow can not be awarded S500 exemption in lieu of homestead out of her husband’s estate in the hands of an assignee at the time of his death. —
    Beard on demurrer to answer and cross-petition.
    W. J. Davidson, for Mrs. Lingo.
    D. H. Dye, for the assignee.
   McNEILL, J.

Caleb F. Lingo made an assignment for he benefit of his creditors to Will S. Sterritt and shortly afterward died. A proceeding has been brought in this court to sell his real estate, and his widow has filed a cross-petition'claiming §500 exemption in lieu of homestead out of the proceeds of the sale. To this cross-petition a demurrer has been filed by the assignee. The right to the ex emption is asserted under the provisions of sec. 5441, of our Rev. Stats., as the real estate herein sold is not the family homestead. While this section provides for an exemption in favor of “every widow,” yet I am satisfied, from a careful reading of the section, that it only applies when her own property is involved, and was not intended to provide an exemption for her out of her husbands’ estate after his decease.

The demurrer will therefore be sustained.