SPIGENER v. CREWS

Mr. Halcott P. Green, for appellants, cites: As to the right of appellants to have the funds in question assigned to them as heirs at law of the late Mrs. Marion E. Green, said funds being exempt under the homestead from the judgments rendered against Mrs. Green in her lifetime: Const. 1895, art. III, sec. 28; Code, p. 612; Code 1912, sec. 348, subd. 4; 25 S.C. 389; 28 S.C. 233; 26 S.C. 227; 107 S.C. 364; 51 S.C. 97; 73 S.C. 324; 21 S.C. 375; 2 S.C. 309; 54 S.C. 579; 99 S.C. 411; 45 S.C. 61; 73 S.C. 234; 19 S.C. 243; 24 S.C. 428; 29 S.C. 178; 26 S.C. 1; 54 S.C. 208; Civil Code, sec. 3714; 28 S.C. 234; 57 S.C. 526. Messrs. Lyles Lyles, for respondents, submit: 1. The Constitution of 1895, article III, section 28, only provided for a homestead "to the head of any family residing in this State," and the language of that provision as to persons entitled to the exemption is exactly the same as the language used in the Constitution of 1868, article II, section 32. "A person can claim homestead only against a debt of his own or of one whose family he is a member of. Children of a deceased debtor cannot claim, each for himself, as the head of a family, a separate homestead out of the lands of the deceased debtor against his debt; but collectively they are entitled to one homestead, whether they be infants or adults:" 25 S.C. 572; 51 S.C. 101.