Martin v. Petty

James Robert Petty died intestate' January 17, 1945, leaving a small estate. His widow, Georgia Ella Petty, is claiming year’s support and exemptions. Plis only child, a son by a former marriage, disputes these claims. The administrator filed the hill herein which was sustained as a hill of interpleader or hill in the nature of a bill of interpleader. The chancellor, hearing the case on demurrer, denied the widow’s claim for year’s support, but allowed her claim for statutory exemptions. The widow and the son have both appealed from this decree.

On September 8, 1944, before his death the…