McDonald v. Young

The parties plaintiffs and defendants are children and beirs at law of one Jonathan: Young, who died seized of the real estate involved, being nearly four hundred acres. Jonathan Young left a widow surviving him. She has since died, and the controversy here is over the question whether she took a homestead interest in the real estate of her deceased husband, or, at her death, was entitled to her distributive share. Before stating the facts, it will be well to dispose of some objections to evidence. Several questions 1 asked of W. W. Young were objected to as being incompetent, immaterial, and…