In re Andrews'

Speakman, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

The question for determination is whether the widow of a decedent, who dies intestate, is, upon her petition, entitled to receive the appraised value of her dower interest in the real estate of which her husband died seized, where the real estate has been ordered to be sold by the Orphans’ Court, free and discharged of such dower interest, or whether such appraised value should be paid to a judgment creditor of the widow.

The Orphans’ Court has general jurisdiction in all cases where a widow may be entitled to dower, to cause it to be assigned,…