Terry v. Terry

The appellant filed her petition in the District Court representing herself as the surviving 'widow of Constant Terry.

She avers that she and her minor daughter are constituents of the family of said Constant; that her husband -died leaving no homestead, nor did he leave the specific personal property exempt by law from forced sale, and she prays for an order to sell so much of the personal property of her husband’s estate as would equal in value ;a homestead, the personal property exempt, and a provision for one year.

The averments of the petition were not contested.

The court found them true,…