Steadman v. Steadman
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Probate Court of Dallas. In the matter of the petition of Mrs. Mary B. Steadman, for an assignment of her dower in the lands of which her deceased husband, John Steadman, was seized and possessed at the time of his death.
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Appeal from the Probate Court of Dallas. In the matter of the petition of Mrs. Mary B. Steadman, for an assignment of her dower in the lands of which her deceased husband, John Steadman, was seized and possessed at the time of his death. The petition was filed on the 2d April, 1866, and was finally heard, after several continuances, on the 11th March, 1867. The petitioner’s right to dower was contested by the decedent’s heirs-at-law, who filed an answer to the petition; in which they admitted the marriage of the petitioner with said John Steadman, his death, and his seizin during coverture of…
1Opinion of the CourtByrd, J.
The appellee, at the death of her husband, had a separate estate, held under the Code, greater in value than her dower interest in, and distributive share of, the estate of her husband; computing the same by the rule prescribed in sections 1991 and 1992 of the Code, But the *475only separate estate she owned at the death of her husband, or since, was entirely in slaves, who have since been emancipated, as held in the cases of Smith (a freedman) v. The State, decided at the January term, 1866, and of Logan v. The State, decided at the June term, 1867. The main question in this case is, whether the…
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