Jenkins v. Jenkins

This was a suit by the brothers and sisters and the children of a deceased sister, heirs at law of George W. Jenkins, deceased, to recover of his widow, Julia Jenkins, an undivided one-half interest in a house and lot on Eighteenth avenue, north, in the City of Nashville.

Defendant Julia Jenkins answered that the deed was void because she was under coverture when she executed the deed to her husband, and she filed a cross-bill to have said deed declared void and set aside as a cloud upon her title, and asked for homestead in another house and lot. The cross-defendants pleaded seven and twenty…