Ingram v. Ingram
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Blount Probate Court. Tried before Hon. Tyre H. Davidson. Appellants, as administrators of the estate of R. L. Ingrain, deceased, filed exceptions under section 2081 of Code of 1896, to the report of commissioners allotting and setting apart a homestead as exempt to the widow and minor children of the decedent.
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Appeal from Blount Probate Court. Tried before Hon. Tyre H. Davidson. Appellants, as administrators of the estate of R. L. Ingrain, deceased, filed exceptions under section 2081 of Code of 1896, to the report of commissioners allotting and setting apart a homestead as exempt to the widow and minor children of the decedent. On the hearing of the issue upon the exceptions, October 12, 1897, the court decreed “that said report of said commissioners be, and the same is, in all things fully ratified and confirmed, and that said contest be dismissed.” ' From this decree the appeal was taken…
1Opinion of the CourtColeman, J.
The decree in this case from which the appeal is prosecuted falls directly within the class governed by section 2559 of the Code of 1886, 2089 of the Code of 1896. From all such the statute declares that the appeal must be prosecuted within twenty days. The appeal having been prosecuted long after expiration of the time provided for taking the appeal, the motion of appellee to dismiss the same must be granted.
Appeal dismissed.
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