MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.
In 1872, A.K. Johnson, an honorably discharged soldier of the Civil War, made a homestead entry of 80 acres. He died in 1875, leaving a widow, who died in 1917, neither having disposed of the husband's additional homestead right. Johnson also left four children, all over the age of 21 years at the date of the death of the widow; and they, together with the widow of a deceased son, sold and assigned
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