Frederick v. Emig

Upon a hearing of the petition of plaintiff in error for dower in two hundred and sixty acres of land in Clinton county the circuit court dismissed the petition. The facts were not contested, and the question presented on this review is whether the conceded facts entitle plaintiff in error to dower.

Petitioner was married to John Frederick, and he bought the land February 15, 1864, from Alvah Lewis, giving Lewis a mortgage, in which petitioner did not join, for $4100,- the unpaid part of the purchase money. On August 9, 1865, petitioner joined with her husband in a conveyance of the land to…