Rogers v. Woods

The executor and executrix of the will of J. L. Woods filed a caveat to the return of the appraisers appointed to set apart a year’s support to Mrs. J. L. Woods. The ordinary sustained the caveat, and the widow appealed to the superior court. The jury found in favor of the appraisers’ return. The exception is to the overruling of the caveators’ motion for new trial. The grounds of the amended caveat were, that, as the will of the deceased was inconsistent with the application for and setting apart of a year’s support, the widow was precluded from taking a year’s support, by having elected to…