Mathewson v. Smith
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
This was an action of dower, wherein the plaintiff demanded against the defendant her reasonable dower in a certain farm.
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This was an action of dower, wherein the plaintiff demanded against the defendant her reasonable dower in a certain farm. The plaintiff averred, that the late Thomas Mathewson, the husband of the plaintiff, was seized of the said farm in fee, and that during the coverture was actually in possession thereof, and died seized thereof; and that she, after the death of her husband, on the 26th August, 1832, did demand of the defendant, who then did, and now does, claim a right and inheritance in the premises, and who then was tenant in possession thereof, to assign and set over to her, the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
The statute provides that the widow of any person dying intestate, shall be endowed of one full third part of all the lands, tenements, and hereditaments whereof her husband, or any one to his use, was seized of an estate of inheritance, during the coverture, to which she shall not have relinquished her right of dower by deed.
Thomas Mathewson, husband of the plaintiff, during the coverture of the plaintiff, was seized of an estate of inheritance in the premises described in the plaintiff’s decree, and died before the commencement of this action, intestate. Before his decease, to…
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