Lefforge v. West

William West filed, in the Franklin Circuit Court, the following bill in chancery : Your orator shows that he was, on the 31st day of August, 1843, and ever since has been, seized in fee of the south-east quarter, &c., [describing the land,] and that one Mary Lefforge had a life estate as tenant in dower in a part of said premises, to-wit, &c., and that said Mary has committed great waste of said last mentioned lands by destroying *515the mansion-house thereon, &c., the fences, forest, and fruit trees, and shrubbery, and by suffering the same to go to waste and become ruined, by which acts her…