Hewitt v. Cox
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. 1. The evidence shows that N. G. Hewitt was a citizen of this State at the time of his death. 5 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law, 857; 43 Ark., 549; 3 Gray, 495 ; 7 id., 29973 H. & N., 594; 1 Wall.
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APPEAL from Pulaski Chancery Court. 1. The evidence shows that N. G. Hewitt was a citizen of this State at the time of his death. 5 Am. & Eng. Enc. Law, 857; 43 Ark., 549; 3 Gray, 495 ; 7 id., 29973 H. & N., 594; 1 Wall. Jr., 265 ; 6 How., 185 ; 124 Mass., 146 ; 5 Vesey, 786; 1 Flippin, 536; 10 Pick., 99; 4 Wash., 101; 1 Woodb. & M., 7; 6 How., 185; 8 Cr., 281 ; 21 How., 103; 14 id., 423. 2. Só far as the real estate is concerned, the personal property belonging to the estate should be applied to remove any encumbrance that may rest upon said real estate, in exoneration"of the widow’s dower.…
1Opinion of the CourtBattle, J.
On the 30th day of May, 1887, Laura S. Hewitt, widow of Nelson G. Hewitt, filed a petition in the-probate court of Pulaski county, in which she stated, among; other things, that her husband had died on the 6th of February, 1887, a citizen of the State of Arkansas, and a resident of Pulaski county; that he left a last will and testament, by which he made Sandford Hewitt, H. N. Hewitt,, John P. Hewitt, Louisa Hewitt and Ann Eliza Hewitt, citizens of the State of New York, his devisees and legatees ;; that the probate court of Pulaski county, on the 19th of February, 1887, appointed N. W. Cox…
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