Madden v. Jones

Blandeord, Justice.

Samuel L. Stafford died in 1862, leaving as his only heirs at law his widow and two minor- children, the plaintiffs in this case. He was possessed, at the time of his death, as of his own right and property, one hundred and sixty acres of land, being the south half of lots numbers 181 and 210, the same being in a certain district in Eloyd county. In 1869, Mary Jane Stafford, the widow and mother of the children, applied and had set apart to her, as the head of a family of minor children, all of the land left by her husband at his death; subsequently, in 1813, she sold and…