Floyd v. Franklin

BROWN, Justice.

The controversy in this case arises between the widow of Jake Franklin, deceased, and his mother over the right of the wife to claim as exempt from administration and the payment of debts $1,000 of the personal property and the homestead in which decedent lived at the time of his death and the right of succession to the residue if such exemptions are allowed.

■ After the administration of the estate of said Franklin had been removed from the probate court into the circuit court in equity, tlie wife filed her claims for these exemptions and -these claims were contested by…