Galbreath v. Gray

This was a proceeding by the appellant, who •was the plaintiff, against James Gray and Joseph Gray, for the appointment of commissioners to assign and set off to the plaintiff her dower interest in certain land in Wayne county, known as the north-west quarter of section 3, in township 15, north of range 12, east. The complaint alleges, in substance, these facts:

The plaintiff is the widow of William Galbreath, who died in 1851. Prior to his death, viz., on October the 4th, 1839, he purchased the land described of one Morgan Reese, and received from him a deed of conveyance in fee-simple. The…