Ex parte Reavis
Supreme Court of Alabama
Application by petition, by Mrs. Sallie M. Reavis, the widow of Turner Reavis, deceased, for a writ of mandamus to the probate judge of Sumter county, compelling him to vacate and set aside an order disallowing allotments of personal property as exempt from administration, under the facts stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, J.
Judge Turner Reavis, a citizen of the county of Sumter in this State, died intestate, in June, 1872, leaving a widow, the petitioner, and an infant child. After *211his death, one William O. Winston was, by the court of probate, appointed and qualified as his administrator. On the 18th November, 1872, the petitioner applied to the court of probate for the appointment of appraisers, to set off and allot to her the property exempt from administration, under the act of February 8, 1872. Pamph. Acts 1871-2, p. 91. The court of probate appointed appraisers, who allotted to petitioner one thousand…
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