Humes v. Scruggs
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Probate Court of Madison. In the matter of tbe petition of Mrs. Narcissa Scruggs, tbe widow of John W. Scruggs, deceased, for an assignment of dower in certain real estate in said county, of which her said husband died seized and possessed.
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Appeal from tbe Probate Court of Madison. In the matter of tbe petition of Mrs. Narcissa Scruggs, tbe widow of John W. Scruggs, deceased, for an assignment of dower in certain real estate in said county, of which her said husband died seized and possessed. The petition was filed on tbe 8th November, 1877. Tbe administrator and heirs at law of said John W. Scruggs, and Milton Humes, as tbe assignee in bankruptcy of bis estate, were made defendants to tbe petition; and Mrs. Sarab C. Bobinson, the widow of James Bobinson, was also joined as a defendant, under an allegation tbat said assignee in…
1Opinion of the CourtManning, J.
Appellee, Nareissa Scruggs, in November, 1877, filed her petition in tbe Probate Court of Madison county, for tbe assignment to her of dower of a tract of about fifty-eight acres of land, adjoining Huntsville in said county; on which, and in the dwelling-house thereon, her late bus-band, .John W. Scruggs, most usually resided, before, and at the time of his death; which he had purchased of one Samuel Ragland, in the year 1850, and was seised of in fee during the marriage ; and which had been and was occupied by petitioner, his widow, from the time of his death in August, 1871, to and at the…
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