Dotson v. Dotson

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Turner

Reversing original and affirming cross-appeal.

Appellee, Keziah. Dotson’s maiden name was Keziah Smith, she being the daughter of George and Elizabeth Smith, and born on the 26th of January, 1851. When she was a small child her father died, and thereafter her mother married one John Charles, who died in the year 1869, leaving a will by which he devised the lands in controversy to his widow, Elizabeth, for life and in remainder to his stepdaughter, the appellee, Keziah Smith, now Dotson.

In 1869 Keziah Smith was married to W. R. Dotson, she at the time being…