Exchange Bank v. Cash

1. Where appraisers are appointed to set apart and assign a sufficiency of property or money as a year’s support for a widow, they must set apart property which belongs to the estate of her deceased husband.

2. A note for a specified sum payable to Mrs. O. (the widow), secured by a mortgage on standing timber, mules, machinery, etc., is apparently the property of the widow.

3. Though extrinsic evidence be produced that the note was made payable to the widow for the purchase-money of property belonging to the estate “and sold by the widow to the maker,” this does not divest the widow of her…