Higdon v. . Higdon

The question to be decided in this case, is the plaintiff, Mary Siler Higdon, wife of W. L. Higdon, under the facts and circumstances of this ease entitled to have her inchoate right of dower assigned and laid off to her, or the cash value thereof ascertained and it be paid to her during the lifetime of her husband? We think not.

C. S., 4099, is as follows: “Widows shall be endowed as at common law as in this chapter defined: Provided, if any married woman shall commit adultery, and shall not be living with her husband at his death, or shall be convicted of the felonious slaying of her…