Virgin v. Virgin

The appellant is the widow of appellee’s intestate. The husband, at the time of his death, was seized of the title to about 1200 acres of land in Morgan county. Prior to their marriage he had executed five several mortgages creating liens on different tracts of his land, and after their marriage nine other mortgages on certain other of the tracts of the lands were executed by both the husband and the wife. The appellee administrator filed in the county court of Morgan county a petition, under the statute, for a decree authorizing and empowering him to sell the real estate of which his…