Hodges v. Hodges
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; John H. Miller, Judge. Ejectment by Mrs. Alice Hodges against William Hodges. From a judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCDELDAN, J.
Statutory ejectment by appellant against appellee (substituted defendant) to recover 20 acres of land described in the complaint. This cause was before this court on a former appeal. Hodges v. Hodges, 172 Ala. 11, 54 South. 618. It was insisted on that occasion that the plaintiff, the widow of Joel B. Hodges, was estopped to assert any homestead right in the 20 acres in question, for that she had petitioned the probate court to set aside to her as the widow’s homestead exemption 60 acres — and it was so set aside — an area not comprising the 20 acres in suit. On the record then before this…
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