Saxon v. Rawls

Citations

• 51 Fla. 555

Syllabus

<p>1. Chapter 4730 of the Laws of 1899 providing that “whenever a person who is the head of a family residing in this State and having his homestead herein, shall die and leave a widow surviving him, but no children, the homestead shall descend to the widow and shall not be the subject of devise by last will and testament” is not in conflict with sections 1 and 4 of Article X or with section 16 of Article III of the State Constitution of 1885 or with section 1 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.</p> <p>2. Sections 1830 and 1833 of the Revised Statutes of 1892 provide how the widow may dissent from the terms and provisions of a will and also give her the right to elect whether she will take dower or a child’s part in the estate.</p>