Watkins v. Lewis

Russell B. Watkins died in December, 1894, intestate. In 1895 appellee, as administrator of his estate, filed a petition in the Montgomery Circuit Court to sell 200 acres of real estate to pay the debts, alleging the same to be all the real estate owned by the deceased at the time of his death. Appellant, the widow, and the two children of said deceased, his only heirs, were made defendants to said petition. Appellant filed an answer and also a cross-complaint, in which she alleged that she was the owner in fee simple of 100 acres of said real estate, describing the same, and set*649ting forth…