Godman v. Jones

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Miller

Reversing.

This is a controversy pver a passway which the appellee Jones claims over the land of the appellant Birdella Godman.

Upon the death of Benjamin Robinson in 1875, a tract of 260 acres was set aside as dower to his widow. Benjamin Robinson left four daughters, Mrs. John Burgess, Mrs. Elizabeth Dowd, Mrs. Phoebe Kendall, and Mrs. Birdella Godman. Mrs. Dowd died in 1878, and Mrs. Burgess died about the same time. Upon the widow’s *219death in 1879 or 1880 the dower tract was partitioned between Mrs. Kendall, Mrs. Godman and the heirs of Mrs. Dowd and the…