Holman v. Gill

John Gill, on the 19th of March, 1865, died intestate, leaving a widow and eight children. At the time of his death he was the owner in fee of lots 8 and 9, in block 2, of Plant & Tuttle’s addition, and lots 5 and 6, in block 8, of Smith & Co.’s addition, to the city of Decatur, this State, being the same property now in controversy. The lots in question constituted the homestead of the deceased, and continued to be occupied by the widow as such after his death, without any allotment of her dower. In August, 1866, Martin Holman, the appellant, recovered in the Macon circuit court a judgment…