Wells v. Dillard

Lumpkin, Justice.

Dempsey Dillard died in 1853 or in 1854, and in 1857 one Bell was appointed administrator of his estate. At the September term, 1857, of the superior court of Marion county, Mrs. Harriet Dillard, the widow of the intestate, filed an application for dower. Commissioners were appointed, the dower was in fact laid off, embracing sixty-two acres of the west half of lot number 154 in the 31st district of that county, and a plat of the same was made by a surveyor in November of that year. The. commissioners made no return to the superior court, and there was no judgment of that…