Court Opinion

ID: 8055126
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 04:32:01.726609+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:37:49.537981
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The Court
were unanimously of opinion, that the widow could recover no more than the value of the third part of the land at the time of alienation; that the improvement since the sale by the husband, was not a subject'of dower, and that the same rule was also to govern in the assessment of damages.
Judgment for the demandant accordingly.
Cited in Coxe v. Higbie 6 Halst. 395; Chiswell v. Morris, 1 McC. 101;
Barnett v. Griffith, 12 C. E Gr. 206.
Approved Wheeler v. Kirtland, 12 C. E Gr. 534.