Sutton v. Rosser

At the August term, 1879, of Meriwether superior court, John R. Jones obtained judgment against Nancy Rosser as the executrix of Asa Rosser, deceased. The fi. fa. issued upon this judgment was kept alive by proper entries thereon, and in 1897 was levied on a certain lot of land in Meriwether county as the property of the estate of Asa Rosser, deceased. Mrs. Nancy Rosser, the widow of the deceased, applied for and had set apart a homestead in this land as property of the estate of her deceased husband, claiming that she was the head of a family consisting of her single daughter-Mattie Rosser,…