Walsh v. Reis

This was a petition for dower, nnder the statute, in lot sixty-two in the town of Waterloo, in Monroe county, brought hy the plaintiff in error, as the widow of David M. Walsh, against Jacob Reis.

A motion to dismiss the petition having been overruled, the defendant answered, denying the petitioner’s right to dower, “ because her husband, through whom she claims, had mortgaged the lot to M. T. Horine, who foreclosed it, and the said husband having claimed a right of homestead in the lot, it being worth more than one thousand dollars, that sum was paid to him, and for that reason the petitioner…