Morrison v. Bartlett

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Clay

Reversing.

In the month of April, 1917, Joe Bartlett, a resi dent of Carter county, died intestate, and the owner of a 40-acre tract of land on Star Branch in that county. He was survived by his widow, Mary Bartlett, sis children, and one grandchild. Oh April 14, 1923, Ruth Terry, one of the children of Joe Bartlett, and her husband, Richard Terry, conveyed to F. B. Morrison their undivided interest in the land of which Joe Bartlett died seized. Dower had never been allotted to the widow, who is now 77 years of age, and no division of the land has ever…