Notley v. Brown

*576OPINION OF THE COURT BY

WILDER, J.

This is an appeal from a decree admeasuring dower to Mele 3L Notley under Sec. 2271 of the Revised laws, which provides as follows: “Every woman shall be endowed of oneithrd part of all the lands owned by her husband at any time during marriage, in fee simple, in freehold, or for the term of fifty years or more, so long as twenty-five years of the term remain unexpired, but in no less estate, unless she is lawfully barred thereof; she shall also be entitled, by way of dower, to an absolute property in the one-third part of all his movable effects, in…