Noffts v. Koss

This was a bill in chancery by a widow against a purchaser of land at an administrator’s sale, to obtain an adjudication of the rights and liability of complainant in respect to an incumbrance by mortgage upon the land as affecting the dower and homestead interests of the complainant. The facts were agreed upon as follows:

The deceased husband of complainant had purchased the land, containing eighty acres, subject to the mortgage, and died intestate,leaving the debt unpaid and the incumbrance still subsisting. The administrator presented a petition to the County Court for leave to sell real…