Abbott v. R. I. Hospital Trust Co.

This is a bill in equity wherein the complainant, widow of Leon A. Abbott late of Providence, seeks to have her dower set off in his estate.

By his last will, which has been duly probated, Leon A. Abbott bequeathed to the complainant the sum of $4,000 in lieu of her dower rights in his estate. Within one year after probate of said will the complainant, in reliance upon the statute, by her writing filed in the municipal court waived her right to said bequest and claimed her dower in the several parcels of land of which her husband was seized of an estate of inheritance during his intermarriage…