Blair v. Brooks

FOSTER, Justice.

This suit was begun August 17, 1935, as an action of ejectment by Della Blair against J. W. Brooks, and was transferred into equity on motion of defendant. A bill was then filed and it was tried on issues so made on testimony taken orally in open court.

The evidence- shows that one G. W. Dyson died in 1878, and left lands in excess of the exemption allowed by law, which are the subject of this controversy. Dyson left a widow and minor child. There was no will produced or probated and no administration on the estate, nor assignment of dower, or homestead. The following year…