Owens v. . Owens
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Special proceeding for dower, heard on appeal, at Fall Term, 1887, of WASHINGTON Superior Court, before Gh'aves, J. There was judgment for the defendants, from which plaintiff appealed. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
This special proceeding, instituted in the Superior Court, before the Clerk, on July 11, 1887, by the plaintiff, the widow of A. D. Owens, who died by an act of violence, intestate, in the month of September, in the year preceding, against the defendants, his infant children and heirs at law, is to have her dower assigned in the lot whereon he resided. The defendants, not disputing the general allegations contained in the petition, deny the plaintiff’s right to dower in the lot, for that, at Fall Term, 1886, of the Superior Court of Beaufort, on the trial, she had been convicted of being an…
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