Strickland v. Hinson

The appellants insist petitioner has no interest now in this 88 acres of land, and cannot institute and maintain this proceeding to establish her title, that the report of the commissioners should have been disallowed and the petition dismissed under authority of Thompson v. Miller, 204 Ala. 502, 85 So. 689. This court so held, but we cannot concur in that conclusion. The facts in that case are strikingly different fromi the facts in this case. There, the widow sold the homestead several years before filing the petition, and waited more than 20 years after her husband’s death before…