Reed v. Norman

J. J. Reed died intestate in 1898 or 1899, seized and possessed of the premises in dispute. He left surviving him only his widow, Rachel Norman Reed, and his son, J. C. Reed. Said widow and son continued to live on the premises in dispute until her death in 1920. No application for dower was ever made and no dower was set apart to the widow out of the lands of her husband. In 1902 Elizabeth Norman Reed, a daughter of said widow by a former marriage, died in Texas, leaving no property in the State of Georgia, and leaving as her sole heirs at law Pranthia Robinson, Fannie Middleton, Ruth Davis,…