Legal Opinion
Byars v. Mixon
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided August 1, 1974No. SC 718PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MERRILL, Justice.
The widow of Travis Mixon, Jr., Louise Cobb Mixon Byars, hereinafter referred to as “the widow,” appealed from the rulings and decree of the Circuit Court of Houston County relating to assignment of her dower in the lands of her deceased husband. The widow, who remarried after the institution of these proceedings, owned no real estate at the time of her husband’s death but did own a separate estate in personality of the value of $26,387.23.
Letters of administration on the estate were granted to the widow on November 6, 1967, and the administration was duly removed from the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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