Rudd v. Dunn

CLAY, Commissioner.

Appellant, H. L. Rudd, instituted this equitable action on March 6, 1952, seeking to be allotted what he terms a “dower” interest in a tract of land of 100 acres in Wolfe County, which he averred was owned by his wife in fee when she died in 1939. Also, he sought to recover damages in the aggregate sum of $15,500 for the wrongful cutting of timber and the appropriation of the rents and profits from the land by ap-pellees for the years 1944 through 1951. The Chancellor sustained ¿ general demurrer to the petition, appellant declined to plead further, the petition was…