Holloway v. Holloway

Simmons, Justice.

It appears, from the record in this case that R. S.'. Holloway died testate in 1869, leaving an estate consisting of land and personalty, a widow and nine children, five of whom were minors. The will provided that, the property of the testator should be kept together until his youngest child should come of age, when there should be a division in kind, or a sale for division, share and share alike, to his wife and children. The widow was his second wife and not the mother of the children. In 1874 the widow applied for, as the head of a family, and had set apart a homestead in…