Morgan v. Morgan

The appellant, the widow of the appellee’s intestate, filed her petition in the Probate Court, praying an allotment of her year’s provision allowed by statute, the same not having been set apart by the appraisers of the intestate’s estate. Commissioners were thereupon appointed, who allotted to her the sum of $182, and reported the same to the court, and it was confirmed at June term, 1857. The administrator refusing to pay over to her the sum allowed, this petition was filed by her, alleging that he had ample funds with which to pay the amount, but refused to do so; and praying execution,…