Miers v. Miers

Appellee’s husband, A. J. Miers, a resident of Montgomery county, died on January 27,1929, leaving a homestead consisting of eighty acres of land of the value of one thousand five hundred seventy-five dollars. Decedent had no personal property of any character, nor any other real estate. There survived him the widow, now more than sixty years of age, and five children, all adults. The widow applied for, and was granted, a year’s allowance in the sum of four hundred dollars, and there being no money or other property out of which to pay the allowance, it was ordered by the court that the lands…