Bishop v. Boyle

Complaint by Mrs. Boyle, for dower in a lot in Vincennes, of which her husband, deceased, was seized during their marriage, and which the complaint alleged the defendant Bishop had purchased at a sheriff’s sale on an execution against the husband.

The defendant alleged that while the lot was unimproved, he was employed by Boyle as a carpenter, with one Wilkinson, a mason, to erect a dwelling-house thereon; that they built the house, and perfected mechanics’ hens thereon; that he enforced his lien by a bill in chancery against Boyle and Wilkinson, which resulted in a decree establishing the…