Givens v. Hudson

Station, Associate Justice.

George Smith died intestate, leaving a small estate, consisting, as it is claimed, of an undivided half interest in about one hundred and twenty-five acres of land, on which he lived at the time of his death (his wife having died sometime before his decease), and of some personal property, all of which, under the statute, would be exempted to a family from forced sale.

Administration was taken out on his estate, an inventory of the property returned, and some debts probated against his estate, and the administrator then died. Afterwards the appellee, Hudson, applied…