Hicks v. Huggins

BRADLEY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment setting apart a homestead exemption and investing fee simple title thereto in the widow of the deceased.

On June 8, 1979 Belle Huggins filed suit against defendants, nieces and nephews of her deceased husband, to have set aside to her in fee simple eighty acres of land which was the homestead of her deceased husband. T. N. Huggins died intestate and without minor heirs in 1946.

Defendants answered by denying that the land in question was all the property owned by deceased and that the property was valued at less than $2,000. They also denied that…