Stevens v. Stevens

Mr. ..Justice Cartwright

delivered the opinion of the court: ■. William Stevens died intestate on July 23, 1921, at Cisne, in Wayne county. He was the owner of lots 3 and 4 in Perrine’s addition to Cisne and occupied the same as a homestead. He left no child or descendant. His three brothers, Leonard, Jehu and Jefferson, and the children and a grandchild of a deceased brother, were his heirs-at-law. The appellee, Eliza J. Stevens, filed her bill in the circuit court of Wayne county praying for the assignment of homestead and dower to her as the widow of William Stevens, claiming one-half of…