Plowden v. Plowden

1. A widow is not entitled to have a year’s support set apart in land to which the husband during his lifetime conveyed all his title, since such year’s support can only be set aside from property of the estate of the husband. Odom v. Hoppendeitzel, 153 Ga. 20 (111 S. E. 419); Griffeth v. Haygood, 174 Ga. 22 (161 S. E. 831); Scruggs v. Morel, 22 Ga. App. 93 (95 S. E. 316). The legal title to a life-estate in the land being in the widow, and the remainder interest being in the children of the decedent, so much of the return of the appraisers as set apart such land to the widow as a year’s…