Moore v. Tisdale

Judge Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This bill was filed by Martha Moore, to have her dower in a tract of land in Harrison county, of which her husband had been seizedjn fee, during the coverture, and which the defendant claimed by virtue of a purchase at a Commissioner’s sale, under a decree which bound her husband’s title. The claim of dower was resisted on two principal grounds, viz : first, that at the death of T. H. Moore, the complainant’s husband, she was an alien, in consequence of her husband’s having left the United States, and having become a citizen of Texas, and of…