Maxwell v. Citizens Bank

Thomas R. Maxwell died intestate on May 24, 1902. In that year a year’s support out of his estate was set aside to his widow, Sallie Maxwell, and three minor children of the intestate by a former marriage. The appraisers set aside the sum of $1465, which, the report states, the widow elected to take in “three hundred & seventy-five acres of land, more or less, off of lots Nos. 249 & 271 & 248 iii the 19th Dist. of Decatur County, value-1000.00,” and certain personal property. On December 23, 1921, the widow executed to the Citizens Bank her deed to secure debt, conveying the following…