Case ID: ala_199/html/0467-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MAYFIELD, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McDaniel v. McDaniel.
    Homestead Allotment..
    (Decided April 12, 1917.
    74 South. 947.)
    Homestead; Allotment to Widow; Appeal; Time for Taking. — An appeal from a decree of the probate court setting aside and allotting to the widow a homestead out of the estate of her deceased husband, as authorized by Code 1907, sections 4205-4230, which was not taken within 20 days, as required by section 4216, will be dismissed.
    Appeal from Lauderdale Probate Court.
    Heard before Hon. J. F. Koonce.
    From a decree confirming homestead allotment as reported by the commissioners Thomas W. McDaniel appeals.
    Appeal dismissed.
    Williams & Roberts for appellant. Mitchell & Hughston for appellee.
   MAYFIELD, J.

This is an appeal from a decree of the probate court of Lauderdale county, confirming the report of the commissioners who set aside and allotted a homestead to the widow, out of the estate of her deceased husband, as is authorized by statute. — Code, §§ 4205-4230. The statute authorizing appeals from such decree (section 4216 of the Code) requires the appeal to be taken within 20 days. The appeal in this case was not taken within the prescribed time. The decree appealed from was of date April 25, 1916, and the appeal 'was not taken until May 22, 1916.

It may not be out of place to say that the record and the briefs were examined before we noticed that the appeal was not taken within time, and that nothing was therein found which would justify or authorize a reversal of the judgment.

Appeal dismissed.

Anderson, C. J., and Somerville and Thomas, JJ., concur.