Tabb v. Collier

Crawford, Justice.

This was an action of ejectment brought by the children of George M. Tabb against S. J. Collier, to recover their interest in a lot of land of which their father died possessed.

The record shows that some years after the death of the father, there being no administrator or executor upon his estate, the land was set apart as a year’s support for the widow and these children ; that after being so set apart it was sold to one Sanders, under whom Collier claims; that Sanders and the widow went to the ordinary, she set forth before him the manner in which she intended to…