King v. Gibson

George Rose Smith, Justice.

Nora Gibson wás Herman Gibson’s surviving widow at his death in 1976. She first went into the probate court and had her dower assigned as a life estate in a specified 195.07 acres out of the 585.21 acres her husband had owned. As the life tenant of the 195.07 acres she then filed this partition suit in the chancery court against the two remaindermen, her husband’s sons by an earlier marriage. The chancellor held that Mrs. Gibson had no right to partition, but on the first appeal we sustained her position. Gibson v. Gibson, 264 Ark. 418, 572 S.W. 2d 146 (1978). The…