Whitehead v. Brownsville Bank

Mr. Chiee Justice Green

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this court, the case before us involves a controversy over a widow’s dower. The intestate owned three parcels of realty at the time of his death and his estate was insolvent.

As the facts are found by the lower courts, one tract of land was of the value of $4786.35, mortgaged for $4818.96; another of the value of $7788.75 unencumbered; another of the value of $7000 unencumbered. Improvements on one of the tracts known as the homestead tract of the value of $3500 — the total value of the land with improvements being $23,075.10.

The…