Cates v. Pentecost

Opinion op the Court byi

Judge Willis

Affirming.

This record presents a contest between a creditor of the ancestor who did not file suit within six months after the descent of the land, and a mortgagee of the heir who took the security within six months after the death of the ancestor.

It arises in this way: Charles Sheffer and Emma Sheffer jointly owned two tracts of land which they had acquired on November 4, 1918. Emma Sheffer died intestate, and her half interest in the land, subject to the dower rights of her surviving husband, descended to Stewart M. Sheffer, an only child of the Sheffers.…