Mills v. Pennington

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

Ownership of „ 240 acres is involved. George J. Williams, by separate purchases, acquired the lands in 1902. In the controversy with which we are dealing the decision affects 160 acres constituting a homestead, and 80 adjoining acres charged with dower, each parcel being a unit of the original acquisition.

George J. Williams married Abagail Anderson in 1868. She died without issue living or dead. Ellana Jane Anderson was Abagail’s first cousin, and married Williams in 1882. To this union six-children were born, five of whom died before maturity. Joseph Albert…