Morgan v. Community Loan Investment Company

Jenkins, Justice.

1. The Code, § 51-1504, expressly extends to “intestate insolvent estates” the benefit of the statutory homestead and exemption which is given by §§ 51-1301 et seq., “in all cases where there is living a widow or child of the intestate.”

2. Where the widow of an insolvent intestate thus proceeds to obtain an exemption of personal property, there is no necessity to resort to equity to prevent the property from beihg seized and sold by a creditor of the intestate, pending the filing and record of her schedule, or after such filing and record. Mapp v. Long, 62 Ga. 568 (3), 572,…