Paulk v. City of Ocilla

This case arises on exceptions taken to the overruling of demurrers filed by a widow to the objections filed by the City of Ocilla to the return of appraisers setting apart to her a year’s support, and to the direction of a verdict by the judge of the superior court, to which the case was appealed by consent. The appraisers set apart to the widow a lot in the City of Ocilla which they valued at $1200. The city filed objections to this return, alleging, in substance, that the return was excessive; that the estate of the deceased, out of whose property the support was set apart, consisted of…