Stanton v. Boatright

The single question in this lawsuit is whether or not a widow is entitled to have her dower set apart to her in kind out of a 90 acre tract of land, as provided by law, and assume the mortgage by having an additional number of acres of value equal to that of the mortgage set apart to her in fee out of said tract.

The appellee, Beatrice Bond Boatright, in her own right and as the widow of her deceased husband and as administratrix of his estate, filed the bill to have the administration of the estate transferred from the County Court to the Chancery Court and to be administered as an insolvent…