Smith's Heirs v. Smith

Judge Ewing

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The County Court of Green, on the motion Smith, the widow of John M. Smith, deceased, appointed commissioners to allot to her, dower in the real estate of her deceased husband.

At a subsequent term, the commissioners made their report to the Court, in which they state that said Smith died possessed of five hundred and fifty-seven acres of land, on which there was a grist and saw mill, and that they had assigned to the widow, by metes and bounds, given in their report, two hundred acres of land, including the mansion house, it being a full third…