Kreamer v. Hitchcock

The appellant is the widow of Adonis W. Kreamer, who died in June, 1948. In 1942 he purchased a lot of ground in Montgomery County, Maryland, and in August, 1946, he and a woman purporting to be his wife conveyed this property to third parties, who, in turn, conveyed it to the appellees in 1950. In 1954 the appellant *457brought this suit in equity against the appellees as owners of the property to assert and establish her dower interest therein. The appellant does not allege that she ever filed an election to take dower, the opinion of the trial court states that she did not do so and this…