Watkins v. Brizendine

On January 10,1896, Mrs. C. R. Crawford, who was then the widow of William P. Crawford, but who after-wards intermarried with one Brizendine, made an application to the superior court of Columbia county for dower. Commissioners were appointed, who made their return to the March' *459term, 1896, of that court, at which term Mrs. Sarah Watkins, a creditor of the estate of William P. Crawford, filed a caveat. The presiding judge being disqualified, counsel for the parties entered into a written agreement to try the case before an attorney at law, to be thereafter selected, as judge pro hac vice, the…