Hyzer v. Stoker

Judge Ewing

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a bill for dower and back rents, brought by a widow and her second husband, Stoker.

It is not proven that the widow and her second husband, when they left the premises, rented them to Reynolds, and though the proof is not satisfactory that they abandoned them, when they left, yet after an acquiesence in the possession and holding'of Mrs. Hyzer, by the double right of heir and purchaser under execution, without claim for rent or dower on the part of Stoker and'wife, we think, *118¡as complainants in Chancery, they ought not to recover more than…