Turner v. Turner
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Probate Court of Cleburne. Tried before the Hon. S. P. Baker. Nancy Turner, the widow of L. M. Turner, deceased, filed her application in the probate court of- Cleburne county, to have set apart to her, as exempt from administration, a homestead in the lands of which her husband died seized.
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Appeal from the Probate Court of Cleburne. Tried before the Hon. S. P. Baker. Nancy Turner, the widow of L. M. Turner, deceased, filed her application in the probate court of- Cleburne county, to have set apart to her, as exempt from administration, a homestead in the lands of which her husband died seized. Commissioners, were appointed, and their report, seting-' apart a hotel as a part of his homestead as exempt to the widow was excepted to by the heirs of the said L. M. Turner, deceased; and a contest was thereupon instituted. This contest was sustained by the court, arid the report of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHead, J.
The appeal is prosecuted from a decree of the probate' court, setting aside the report of commissioners appointed to allot the homestead exemption to the widow of L. M. Turner, deceased. The sole question *468presented, by the record is whether that portion of the property of the deceased husband, owned at the time of his death, upon which is located_the hotel, was a part of his homestead, and, as such, exempt from administration in favor of the widow. The facts are, that the decedent resided at the time of his death upon property owned by him situated on the west side of Oxford street in the…
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