McCracken v. Hall

Hall sued Me Cracken, before a justice of the peace, for the value of a pump. On appeal in the Circuit Court, the cause was submitted upon the following agreed case:

“ That on the-day of October, 1852, Rhoda Logan had a dower estate in certain lands in said county, set off and assigned to her, and the plaintiff, Hall, was the owner in fee of said lands; that plaintiff was the tenant of said Rhoda and had been, of her said dower, and they lived together in the same house as a family; that while the plaintiff, Hall, and said Rhoda lived together in said house, which was on the dower estate, the…