LaFramboise v. Grow

The appellant filed her bill in the Superior Court of Chicago, on the chancery side thereof, against the appellee, in which she alleged that, as widow of Joseph LaFramboise, deceased, she was entitled to dower in certain premises described in the bill. To this bill an answer was filed and replication thereto.

It appears that before the cause reached a hearing, the appellant, on the 28th day of May, 1870, executed to George E. . Walker, for a valuable consideration, a release for her entire interest in the south forty acres described in the bill, in which the land in controversy is situated.…