Court Opinion

ID: 7032629
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 06:42:23.849756+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:11:01.296671
License: Public Domain

Perkins, J.
Petition for dower. Petition granted below. The Court proceeded in the cause and appointed com-’ missioners to assign dower without notice to the heirs.
This was erroneous. The statute under which the proceeding was. had (R. S. 1843, pp. 804, 805) provided for a trial, upon notice to the defendants, upon the question of the right to dower, before the appointment of commissioners, &c., and their appointment without such notice and trial was erroneous, at all events, where such trial was not waived.
Per Curiam. — The decree and proceedings are reversed with costs, back to the petition, with leave to the defendants to plead, &c.