Thoms v. King

The complainant, Josephine Thoms, a resident of Natchez, Miss., and claiming to be the widow of one H. A. Thoms, who died at Memphis while a resident of the State of Tennessee, hied this bill in the Chancery Court of Shelby County against certain heirs of said H. A. Thoms, for the purpose of recovering dower in his estate. The vendees of other heirs, who purchased the interests of the latter in realty inherited from the said H. A. Thoms, were *62also made parties defendant. The claim of complainant to dower in these lands was resisted by all the defendants, upon the ground that, on September…