Hicks v. Hicks

The record shows- the following facts: On April 20, 1938, Mrs. Alberta Kinard Hicks, the widow of Thomas Benjamin Hicks, made an application to the superior court of Laurens County for dower. On August 6, 1938, commissioners were appointed to enter upon certain lands '“and to lay off and assign the dower to which the applicant is entitled by law in such lands.” On January 2,1941, the court passed the following order: “The above-stated case being called in its regular order, the same is hereby dismissed.” On November 17, 1942, Mrs. Hicks filed an application for a reinstatement of her former…