Roberts v. Roberts

GOODWYN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court of Houston County, in equity, overruling appellant’s exceptions to the report of commissioners setting aside to her, as the widow of J. A. Roberts, deceased, an exemption in lieu of a homestead out of the real estate owned by said decedent at the time of his death.

J. A. Roberts died intestate on February 27, 1953, leaving surviving him his widow, the appellant, and one child, the appellee, born of a former marriage. At the time of decedent’s death appellee was a minor, eighteen years of age. Her disabilities of non-age were…