Crownover v. Crownover

Whatever the rule may be in other states, it is well settled by the decisions of this court that, while the failure of the widow to dissent from her husband’s will precludes her from claiming- dow: er or a distributive share in her husband’s estate, such failure does not cut off her right to the exemptions given her under the law when seasonably claimed. Hubbard v. Russell, 73 Ala. 578; Bell v. Bell, 84 Ala. 64, 4 So. 189; Chandler v. Chandler, 87 Ala. 303, 6 So. 153; Richter v. Richter, 180 Ala. 218, 60 So. 880. Therefore the widow in the instant case is entitled to the exemption claimed…