Pearce v. Pearce

Appellant, Alfred Pearce, on March 8, 1917, filed a bill in chancery in the circuit court of Wayne county to have set off to him dower or a one-third interest in certain lands situated in said county of which his wife died seized in fee. A general and special demurrer was filed by appellees to complainant’s bill, which was sustained by the court, and appellant electing to stand by his bill as amended, the court entered a decree dismissing said bill for want of equity.

The bill as amended, and to which the demurrer was interposed, so far as material to this case, avers that on or about May 15,…