Caffee v. Thompson

GOODWYN, Justice.

Appeal by respondents from decree in equity determining ownership of "ancestral” land and ordering sale of the land for ■division among the joint owners.

We put to one side questions not material to a decision on the merits, arid direct our attention to the one feature which we think is determinative of the case.

Stated hypothetically, the facts are these: A, the owner of certain real estate in Pike County, Alabama, dies intestate leaving surviving him his wife and one child, B. A leaves no other children or their descendants. Thus the land descended to B subject to the dower…