Kerr v. Watkins

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Logan

Reversing.

In substance it is alleged, in the petition filed in this action by the appellants, that the appellants and the appellees are the children of James Wesley Watkins and his wife, Mary E. Watkins; that they are their sole heirs at law; that James Wesley Watkins died intestate in the year 1881, and, at the time of his death, he was the owner of 112 acres of land described in the petition; that upon the death of James Wesley Watkins the land descended to the children subject to the dower interest therein of the widow, Mary E. Watkins; that no dower was…