Vaughn v. Vaughn

In August, 1885, B. A. Vaughn died intestate, in Tipton County, Tenn., leaving his widow, Sallie L. Vaughn, but no children, surviving him. He owned ninety acres of land in *743tliat county, which, under decree of the Coimty Court, was, in September following, assigned to her as homestead. Crops of corn and cotton were growing upon this land when it was so allotted to the widow and when her husband died. Assuming that the crops passed to her with the land, she finished their cultivation, and, when they had matured, gathered and appropriated them as her individual property.

She took out letters of…