Dyer v. Collins

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Cammack

Affirming.

This appeal is from a judgment overruling exceptions filed by the appellants, Goldina Smith Dyer, and John Smith, Jr., and Stallard Dyer Smith, by their statutory guardian, Goldina Smith Dyer, to a commissioners ’ report dividing some 1500 to 2000 acres of mountain land which belonged to John Smith, deceased, into 14 parts. Only the equality of the shares of the appellants and that of the appellee, Pricy Smith Collins, is questioned in this action.

John Smith, Jr., and Stallard Dyer Smith were awarded 3.9 acres of bottom land along U. S. Highway…