Clarke v. Jenson

1. An administrator’s deed which recites that he offered for sale a certain tract of land belonging to the estate of the deceased, containing 100 acres, more or less, and “especially sold subject to the widow’s dower therein,” and which witnesses a sale of “said lot or tract of land (the widow’s dower excepted),” evidences a sale of the reversionary estate in the land out of which dower was assigned. Hawkins v. Johnson, 131 Ga. 347, 355 (62 S. E. 285); Fletcher v. Hall, 135 Ga. 28 (68 S. E. 793); Knight v. Wood, 146 Ga. 753 (92 S. E. 281).

2. The judge, to whom the case was submitted for…