Cotton v. Cotton

The appeal is from a decree of the circuit court of Geneva, sitting in equity, confirming the report of the register, which in turn confirmed the report of appraisers setting apart to appellee, as widow of X R. Cotton, deceased, homestead and personal exemptions. The question now to be'determined, duly raised in the first instance by exception to the register’s report, is whether appellee is the lawful widow of deceased.

There, may be more than one consideration that would suffice to sustain the ruling in the' trial court, which was that appellee was the lawful wife and is the lawful widow of…