Court Opinion

ID: 5559621
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 00:47:50.21921+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:35:26.281105
License: Public Domain

Bleckley, Justice.
The complainant either has or has not the dower right in the dwelling of her late husband, which she alleges in her bill. If, under the special circumstances, she has not the right, she is not entitled to any injunction ; and if she has the right, she needs none. The Code, in section 1768, provides “that the widow is entitled to the possession of the dwelling-house from the death of her husband, and before dower is assigned.” The complainant has possession, and if her theory of her rights be correct, she need not care whether the sheriff sells the property as that of her deceased *312husband or not. She can give notice, at the sale, of her rights, and purchasers will buy subject thereto, and they cannot disturb her lawful possession but at the peri] of answering as trespassers. It is not to be anticipated that they will attempt such a thing. Because the sheriff sells, it by no means follows that an entry will be made upon her, either with his assistance or without it." If injunction ever should be necessary, certainly an application for it now is premature.
Judgment reversed.