Saunderson v. . Saunderson

This is a proceeding for allotment of dower. All the allegations of the petition are admitted in the answer, except the allegation that plaintiff was the wife of J. H. Saunderson at the date of bis death. Defendants, wbo are bis beirs at law, deny this allegation. They admit that the said J. H. Saunderson and the plaintiff intermarried some time prior to 1897; they allege in their answer that “at Pall Term, 1899, of the Superior Court of Currituck County, a decree of absolute divorce was signed after a jury verdict in said Superior Court, and that the bonds of matrimony theretofore existing…