Ferguson v. Ferguson

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

The appellee, Florence McCoy, before her marriage to C. F. McCoy, was the widow of O. V. Ferguson, who died in 1907, leaving surviving him' as his only heirs at law his widow, now appellee, and one infant son. This suit was brought by the appellee for the purpose of having dower assigned her as the widow of C. V. Ferguson in a tract of land described in the petition.

To this suit the appellant, J. M. Ferguson, father of C. Y. Ferguson, became a party and in his petition and amended petition he averred that the land in which appellee sought to have…