Legal Opinion

Apperson v. Bolton

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided November 15, 1874PublishedCited by 19 opinions

APPEALS from Desha Circuit Court. Hon. M. L. Stephenson, Circuit Judge.

1Opinion of the CourtEnglish, C. J.

These are separate appeals and separate transcripts, but they are, branches of one original suit in the court below. The first appeal involves the right of Mrs. Sigler to dower in the Arkansas lands of Isaac L. Bolton, deceased. The second appeal grew out of a contest between E. M. Apperson, a Tennessee executor, and Seth W. Bolton, an Arkansas administrator, for the control of the Arkansas lands of Wade H. Bolton, deceased. This appeal also involves the dower right of Mrs. Lavinia A. Bolton in the same lands.

The original bill, from which the litigation in its several branches sprung up, was…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. McCormick v. SullivantSupreme Court of the United States · 1825
  2. The MARY, Stafford, MastfSupreme Court of the United States · 1815
  3. Mosby's adm'r v. Mosby's adm'rSupreme Court of Virginia · 1853
  4. Crusoe v. ButlerMississippi Supreme Court · 1858
  5. Palmer v. VoorhisNew York Supreme Court · 1861

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3Cited by19 opinions

  1. Thomas v. WoodsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1909
  2. Matter of Estate of LingscheitSouth Dakota Supreme Court · 1986
  3. Martin v. BatteySupreme Court of Kansas · 1912
  4. Colvin v. HutchisonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1936
  5. Bish v. BishCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1943

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