Sprague v. Stevens

This is a bill in equity, brought by the widow of Amasa Sprague against Charles W. Stevens and over seven hundred other respondents, for the purpose of obtaining an equitable assignment of her dower, out of the lands held by them, whereof her said husband was seised of an estate of inheritance during their intermarriage to which she has not relinquished her right of dower. The lands, whereof she claims to be dowable, were conveyed to her husband, prior to their intermarriage, November 12, 1873, and were mortgaged and conveyed by him thereafterwards by deeds to which she was. not a party and…