Youmans v. Wagener & Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Simpson.

This appeal involves the question whether the appellant is entitled to dower in certain real estate, denied her by the Circuit Court for Hampton County, on appeal from the Probate Court, which had decreed for her. The following seem to be the facts upon which the claim was made. The husband of the demandant owned the tract of land in question during the coverture, and during said coverture it was sold at sheriff’s sale under execution against said husband. After-wards, and still during the coverture, the purchaser at said sale…