The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-09
WIDOW FILES \
 BILL IN EQUITY Mrs Annie Webb Ignorant of
 Husbands Wealth SUES FOR HER DOVER RIGHT Webb Estate Included the Dude Saloon Twentieth Street and Second Ave-
 nue--AlIeeations Set Forth
 an Interesti@1 Story.
SUES FOR HER DOVER RIGHT

A bill in equity was filed yesterday morning in the City court by Annie Webb who claims that she is entitled to a share in the estate of John B. Webb, deceased, and prays that the court ad- judge her a legal heir to the property left by her husband. The suit is filed against Corinthia c. Bennett and c. B. Bennett. her husband; Columbia D. Mccoy and Benjamin H. Mccoy, her husband; Co., lumbia E. Mccoy as executrix of the last will and testament of John B. Webb and Columbia E. Mccoy as guardian of Sarah Annie Mccoy, minor; Valentine Emma Mccoy minor; Mabel Euell Mccoy minor; Corinthia Odessa Mccoy minor Nellie Louise Mccoy, minor; Webb Bra dy Mccoy, minor;sand also Sarah Annie Mccoy, minor; Valentine Emma Mccoy rinthia Odessa Mccoy. minor: Webb Brady Mccoy. minor. and Nellie Louise Mccoy, minor.
 The Allegations.
 The plaintiff claims in the suit that she married John B. Webb on the goth of <Ad6uott ioVos anu llldl Nlllle O1l tn6 Way to Hot Springs, where they were married, they passed through Birmingham, where Webb advised and informed her that he desired to make her a wedding present of $l2OO in money and a lot of land in Plant City, Florida, the lot being worth about $500, and that Webb took her to an office in Birmingham, where ske signed a t,a hnt ba ot read to her, and all she recalls of the transaction was that she was asked if she knew what the paper was, and she. having been advised by her then be- trothed husband that 1t was |. wedding present for her, answered affirmatively and signed the paper without reading 1t or having 1t read to her.
 Mrs. Webb states In the bill that at the time she was married to her husband she considerable means, but after his death in 1901 she ascertained his e.tate was valued at about $200,000.
 Mrs Webb now claims part of the es- tate, which is in Birmingham realty. The estate includes the building on the corner of Twentieth street and Second avenue, now occupied by the Dude saloon. It Is a matter of history In Birmingham that Webb here conducted the first hotel in the city.
 In substance Mrs. Webb prays that the paper she signed two days before her marriage and the will of her husband be set aside and that she be given dover interest in the estate of her deceased husband
 Was Widow.
 Mrs. Webb claims she met Webb in Florida and he proposed. After repeated requests on his part she became engaged to him. She did not then know he was wealthy, but he promised to provide for her according to his means. She ayers that she was then widow with fair prospects of marrying again. After mar rying Webb she says he never told her that he had an income, which she ayers was about $12,000 a year, and that all though he promised to provide for her he did not carry out his contract in that he did not support her according to his estate and degree and condition in life so long as she may remain his wife, that the larger part of the $1200 she had to spend for clothing, that he took her into the country where he boarded with her, paying $5 week for the board of them both, and that subsequently, they moved into cottage. Where he so limited her expenditures to $25 in the spring and s25 in the fall.
 The document Is a lengthy one and covers every phase of the entire case.
 The oratrix prays for relief from the paper she signed. and that the court al- low her an entitled interest in the es- tate of her husband, and a third of the amount of rents collected from the ten ants of the property.
 Mrs. Webb resides In Florida. The bill was filed through the attorneys, Alex St. Clair Abrams and J. T. Collins, Jr