Powell v. Powell
Mississippi Supreme Court
On appeal from the probate court, of. Lowndes county; Hon. N. G. Goodwin, judge of the probate court of Lowndes county. This was an application filed in- the probate court of Lowndes county, on the part of Ann E. Powell, the. plaintiff in error, to have her share of the estate of her deceased husband, •John R. Powell, allotted to her.
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On appeal from the probate court, of. Lowndes county; Hon. N. G. Goodwin, judge of the probate court of Lowndes county. This was an application filed in- the probate court of Lowndes county, on the part of Ann E. Powell, the. plaintiff in error, to have her share of the estate of her deceased husband, •John R. Powell, allotted to her. It was resisted by the administrator, on the alleged ground that she had never been legally married to John R. Powell,- that her pretended marriage was void on two grounds: 1st, because, though divorced from her .former husband, the divorce was on account of her…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fisher
This was an application by the widow of the intestate, John R. Powell, to the probate court of. Lowndes county for an *785allotment of her distributive share in the estate of her deceased husband.
The answer of the administrator sets up as a defence, that the petitioner was not, in law, the wife of the intestate during his lifetime. It is first urged, that the petitioner was at one time the wife of one J. M. T. Eeed, who is still living, and that the said Eeed, about the year 1845, obtained a decree dissolving the said marriage, on account of her adultery; and, secondly, that the deceased, at the…
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