Whitfield v. Maddox

Bell, Justice.

The principal questions for decision in these cases are whether a return of appraisers appointed to set apart a year’s support for a widow and minor children sufficiently described lands therein referred to as being set apart for that purpose, and whether subsequent conveyances by the widow appeared, or were shown, to be invalid. A. Whitfield died intestate in the year 1917, a resident of Murray County. In April, 1918, on application of his widow for a year’s support for herself and three minor children, appraisers appointed by the ordinary made a return upon a printed form, in…