Case Name: MRS. SHOCKLEY'S CASE
Court: Delaware Orphans' Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1821
Citations: 1 Del. Cas. 620
Docket Number: 
Parties: MRS. SHOCKLEY’S CASE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 620–620

Head Matter:
MRS. SHOCKLEY’S CASE.
Orphans’ Court,
c. 1821.
Clayton’s Notebook, 142.

Opinion:
J. M. Clayton. The lapse of time is nothing if short of twenty years. And the case of Kennedy v. Nedrow and Wife et al., 1 Dali. 417, 418, is in point to show that even if she had acted as executrix or claimed under the will (made before 1816) any interest whatever, and even if she had been a party to a partition, she is not barred of her dower. Every will at common law and before 1816 imported a bounty.
Hall urged the lapse of time and then partition.
The Chancellor, on the case, 1 Dali., decreed for the petitioner.