Combs v. Spurling

Where it appears that a husband and wife are *855together and there is no legal separation at the time of her death, the right to the possession of the household effects is in the husband. See Shaner Motor Company v. Williams, 36 Ga. App. 766 (138 S. E. 274). Where there are no children, the issue of a marriage, and there is no will, the husband is the sole heir of his wife. In these circumstances, the household furnishings in the marital domicile at the time of and subsequent to the wife’s death are presumably the property of the surviving husband, even though the same were purchased by the wife…