Calhoun v. Calhoun
Supreme Court of Georgia
Dower. Year’s Support. Husband and "Wife. Before Judge Peeples. Eulton Superior Court. October Term, 1876. Reported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Judge.
This case was tried on a bill in equity, an affidavit of illegality and a rule against the sheriff, all together, by consent, at the same time.
*248Mrs. Calhoun had her year’s support set apart by the ordinary, obtained judgment, fi. fa. was thereupon issued, and the sheriff ruled for not making the money, but receiving the executor’s affidavit of illegality. The executor also filed a bill of injunction, setting up that she had received her year’s support in the house, the use of which she had had, and that she could not elect a child’s part of the property, as the will provided for…
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