Edgewood Distilling Co. v. Rosser's Administrator

This is a controversy between the appellant, a creditor of the estate of J. E. Rosser, deceased, and the infant children of the decedent, over a claim by the latter to a homestead exemption in the proceeds o‘f sale of the personal estate made by his administrator.

Rosser had been a retail liquor dealer in the town of Pocahontas, and died intestate survived by his wife (who intermarried with one Thomas H. Brown), and three infant children. The eldest child lives in Virginia. Brown qualified as guardian of the two younger children, and they were taken by him to West Virginia, where they now…