Alsberry v. Hawkins

The Chief Justice

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Thomas Alsberry and Leah, his wife, once citizens of Kentucky, emigrated, in 1824, to the Province of Texas, where he died in 1826, and where she continued to reside until the summer of 1836, when she returned to this State, on a visit to her daughter, intending to go back to Texas, as her home. In a short time after her arrival here, she filed a bill in chancery against Strother J. Hawkins, for dower in land which he had purchased from her deceased husband, during her coverture, and prior to their removal to Texas. Her claim was resisted…