Dean v. Hart

Nathaniel P. Dean, by his last will, devised and bequeathed all his estate to his wife and infant daughter jointly, and on the death of either, the survivor to take the whole, and on the death of both, remainder to the legal heirs of his daughter. The wife dissented from the will, and elected to take dower, and the share of the personal estate, to which she would have been entitled if the testator had died intestate. On the final settlement of the appellee, Hart, as administrator with the will annexed, of the testator, there was ascertained to be in his hands for distribution, ten thousand…