McCormick v. McCormick

This action arises upon a petition to set aside certain deeds executed by Richard McCor mick, the husband of Emma 0. McCormick, the plaintiff, to his son by a former marriage, about three weeks prior to his marriage to Emma 0. McCormick, upon the ground that the deeds were executed in fraud of the wife’s dower rights. The amended petition prayed “that said deeds and the conveyances intended thereby, insofar as they affect her dower in said real estate, be set aside, and that plaintiff be decreed to have an inchoate right of dower in said real estate during the life of plaintiff and defendant…