Bradford v. Culbreth

Layton, Chief Justice:

This is a writ of error to review a judgment entered in the court below on a directed verdict for the defendants. At the October Term, 1938, of Superior Court for Kent County, Helen Rogers Bradford, as widow of Thomas B. Bradford, deceased, brought suit against Lucinda Hall Culbreth and others for the recovery of dower, and damages for the detention thereof, in respect of certain lands and tenements situated in Dover, Delaware. The declaration was in the ancient form, reciting that the defendants had been summoned to answer the plainiff “of a plea that they render unto…