Thompson v. Miller
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Probate Court, Etowah County; L. L. Herzberg, Judge. Petition of Millie Miller to set aside certain property to her as exempt, as the widow of James Miller, with contest by John Henry Thompson, a nephew and heir of the deceased.
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Appeal from Probate Court, Etowah County; L. L. Herzberg, Judge. Petition of Millie Miller to set aside certain property to her as exempt, as the widow of James Miller, with contest by John Henry Thompson, a nephew and heir of the deceased. From a decree granting the prayer of the petition, contestant appeals. ' In August, 1919, appellee" filed a petition in the probate court of Etowah county, setting up that she was the widow of one James Miller, who at the time of his death (June, 1899), and prior thereto, was a resident citizen, of said county, and that he left property, real and personal,…
1Per curiam
Appellee, as the widow of one James Miller, deceased, there being no children, filed a petition in the probate court under the provisions of section 2097 of the Code of 1896 and section 4224 of the Code of 1907; these two sections being identical.'
The proof was without dispute that petitioner’s husband died in June, 1899, residing at the time of his death upon the farm described in the petition, the lot in Gadsden not being in any manner connected therewith, and that this petition to set aside this property as exempt under the foregoing statute was filed more than 20 years from the date of…
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