Campbell's Adm'r & Heirs v. Gullatt
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Probate Court of Jackson. Tried before the Hon. P. Ragland, Register in Chancery,, the presiding judge being incompetent on account of interest. Application by appellee, Sarah A. Gullatt, wife of Thomas A. Gullatt, to the probate court of Jackson county, to have dower assigned her, in the lands of her deceased husband, James Campbell. The statements in the petition for dower, appear sufficiently in the opinion. Proper service was made upon all the parties.
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Appeal from the Probate Court of Jackson. Tried before the Hon. P. Ragland, Register in Chancery,, the presiding judge being incompetent on account of interest. Application by appellee, Sarah A. Gullatt, wife of Thomas A. Gullatt, to the probate court of Jackson county, to have dower assigned her, in the lands of her deceased husband, James Campbell. The statements in the petition for dower, appear sufficiently in the opinion. Proper service was made upon all the parties. M. L. Swan, guardian ad litem for the minor heirs of Campbell, filed an answer to the petition denying all its…
1Opinion of the Court
E. W. PECK,- C. J.
This case originated in the probate *65court of the county of Jackson, by a petition, filed by Mrs. Sarah A. Gullatt, the appellee, to have dower assigned to her in the lands of James Campbell, deceased.
The petition states that she was lawfully married to said deceased, in said county of Jackson, in the month of June, in the year 1862, and that they lived together as husband and wife, until the death of said J ames Campbell, in the month of August, in the year 1863, in the same county; that after the death of said James Campbell, she was lawfully married to her present husband,…
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