Hinson v. Booth
Supreme Court of Florida
.Appeal from the Circuit Court for Jackson county. STATEMENT. Oil the 30th of December, 1889, Annie E. Booth and her husbapd, Willie R. Booth, filed their bill in equity in the Circuit Court of Jackson county against Bartlett A. Hinson and William M. Farrior, as executors of Hadley Hinson, deceased, in which it was alleged in substance that Hadley Hinson, a resident and citizen of Jackson county, Florida, died in said county in February, 1889. That prior to his death the…
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.Appeal from the Circuit Court for Jackson county. STATEMENT. Oil the 30th of December, 1889, Annie E. Booth and her husbapd, Willie R. Booth, filed their bill in equity in the Circuit Court of Jackson county against Bartlett A. Hinson and William M. Farrior, as executors of Hadley Hinson, deceased, in which it was alleged in substance that Hadley Hinson, a resident and citizen of Jackson county, Florida, died in said county in February, 1889. That prior to his death the said Hadley Hinson, on the 20th of February, 1886, made and executed as and for his last will and testament the following…
1Opinion of the Court
'Taylor, C. J.:
The court below has erred in that feature of its decree that adjudges the will of Hadley Hinson, deceased, to be inoperative to convey or dispose of the ■■§1000 personal property exemption to which the testator, as the head of a family residing in Florida, was *345•entitled under the Constitution, and that said exemption inured to the heirs at law according to the statutes of descent regardless of the disposition made thereof by the will, and that the complainant, through his deceased wife, Annie E. Booth, a grandchild of the testator, was entitled as one of the heirs at law to a…
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