Rank v. Hanna

On the 8th day of March, 1853, Elizabeth Rank brought an action, in the Court of Common Pleas *21of Tippecanoe comity, for dower. Hanna and Reynolds, the defendants, answered, admitting that William E. Rank, the husband of the petitioner, was seized of one undivided eighth part of the tract of land described in the petition, and averring that they were seized in fee simple of six-eighths, and one Clark Williams of the remaining eighth part of said land. That William E. Rank, on the 19th day of September, 1844, conveyed his part in said land to one Lyman Beeman, and that Beemcm, Williams, and the…