Guice v. Guice
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Barbour Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. W. L. Parks. Suit by Stella I). Guice, for herself and as administratrix of Jason Gnice, deceased, and another, against Julian Guice and others, for partition of real estate. From a decree disposing of the proceeds on a sale of the real estate, complainant Stella I). Guice appeals.
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Appeal from Barbour Chancery Court. Heard before Hon. W. L. Parks. Suit by Stella I). Guice, for herself and as administratrix of Jason Gnice, deceased, and another, against Julian Guice and others, for partition of real estate. From a decree disposing of the proceeds on a sale of the real estate, complainant Stella I). Guice appeals. Stella D. Guice, for herself and as administratrix of' Jason Guice, deceased, filed her bill, in conjunction with T. R. Parrish, seeking to have a certain real estate, belonging jointly to T. R. Parrish and Jason Guice in his lifetime, sold for division and…
1Opinion of the CourtMoCLELLAN, J.
Jason Guice died, leaving an. estate consisting of real and personal property, but without. lineal descendants. His widow, Stella D. Guice, survives. She possessed, at his death, a statutory separate estate greater in value that her dower interest, estimated as provided by section 1506 of the Code of 1896, but of less' 'value than that of the personal property, and, of course, of less Aralue than the aggregate Aralue of the personality and such dower interest. The specific question propounded by this appeal is: . “Does section 1506 deny, under these conditions, dower to this widoAv?”
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