Dickenson v. Gray
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from decrees of tlie Circuit Court of Russell county, pronounced April 16, 1900, and November 18, 1900, in a suit in chancery, wherein the appellee was the complainant, and the appellants were the defendants.
1Opinion of the Court
Buchanan, J.,
delivei’ed the opinion of the court.
About the year 1858, Harvey Gray, the husband of the appellee, aliened a tract of land by a conveyance in which she did not unite. After her husband’s death, in the year 1812, she filed her bill against the alienee of her husband to have dower assigned her, or if the alienee preferred it, to allow him, as provided by section 2218 of the Code, to retain the whole land upon the terms of his paying her annually for her life legal interest on one-third of the value of the land at the time of her husband’s death. The alienee electing to pay such…
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