Court Opinion

ID: 9808921
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 20:54:08.932112+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:20:07.769663
License: Public Domain

Furches, J.,
dissenting. I dissent from the opinion of the Court in this case upon two grounds:
First. For the reason that the only mention made in the deed of assignment to the homestead is the following para*559graphs: “1. Allot and set apart to said Newsome bis homestead and personal property exemptions allowed him by law.” “6. But before any sale is had, the said George Oowper shall allot, lay off and set apart to the said Newsome / his homestead and personal property exemptions allowed him by law.”
These paragraphs are contained in the powers conferred on the assignee Oowper, and nowhere else. They undertake to authorize him to do what he can. not do — to lay off the assign- or’s homestead and personal property exemptions. There is not a word excepting the homestead or personal property exemption, unless it is contained in the paragraphs I have quoted; and I do not understand them to amount to. an exception of a homestead.
Second. In my opinion the deed is void for the reason that the wife did not join in its execution. Constitution of North Carolina, Art X, sec. 8.