Heirs at Law of Freeman v. Ramsey

Plaintiffs’ first exception is to the exclusion of the evidence of Patton, son of Nancy Freeman by her first marriage, as to the laying off by three men of what the witness calls his mother’s dower; that George Freeman, an heir of Daniel E. Freeman, was there; that it was in 1873 and that the land was allotted to her “as her dower,” and witness gave one of the lines of the dower as “the conditional line between Daniel E. Freeman and Garrett Ramsey,” and said, “My mother lived on the dower until she sold it to David Lunsford.”

*795We think this evidence is competent. It was not, strictly speaking,…