Owen v. Yale

Complainant, as owner and grantee of lands formerly owned by Francis Crawford, now deceased, filed this bill to quiet his title against the claim of dower of defendant, once his wife, who, as he claimed, had relinquished her dower by a voluntary arrangement during her former husband’s life-time. The court below decreed to complainant the relief prayed, and defendant appeals.

• In 1878, on January 22, defendant, proceeding under the act found in section 6291, How. Stat.,1 filed a bill in the circuit court for the county of Washtenaw against Crawford, then her husband, for maintenance. The bill…