Whitcomb v. Reid
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Probate Court of Madison county. Hon. J. M. Simmons, judge. Cited Session Acts of 1852, p. 66; Hutch. Code, 902, § 23; 8 S. & M. 520; JSdwards v. MiGree, 27 Miss. R. 92.
1Opinion of the CourtHandy, J.
The appellee, as the guardian of the minor children of Young W. Lewis, deceased, filed this petition in the Probate Court against the appellant, his administrator, praying the appointment of com*568missioners, to set apart to the wards so much of the estate of their deceased father as was exempt from execution.
It appears that the mother of the children died before their father, who left no widow at his death, and that he was a practising dentist, and died intestate.
On the hearing, the court appointed commissioners to set apart certain articles of personal property, including a set of dentists’…
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