Markham v. Merrett
Mississippi Supreme Court
APPEAL from the probate court of the county of Yazoo. In December, 1841, Elizabeth Markham filed her petition in the probate court of the county of Yazoo, claiming dower in certain town lots and lands described in the petition. The petitioner alleged that she married with Lewis B. Markham, in 1833, and that he departed this life in 1840, leaving the petitioner a widow without children; that Markham was seized during their marriage of the lands out of which dower was claimed.
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APPEAL from the probate court of the county of Yazoo. In December, 1841, Elizabeth Markham filed her petition in the probate court of the county of Yazoo, claiming dower in certain town lots and lands described in the petition. The petitioner alleged that she married with Lewis B. Markham, in 1833, and that he departed this life in 1840, leaving the petitioner a widow without children; that Markham was seized during their marriage of the lands out of which dower was claimed. The appellees were made parties defendants to the proceedings, and plead the relinquishment of dower by the claimant,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sharkey
The appellant filed her petition in the probate court of Yazoo county, praying that dower might be allotted her in certain lands and town lots, of which her husband Lineus B. Markham had been seized during coverture, particularly by specifying each tract of land and town lot. Her claim was resisted by the appellees; *444Merrett and four others, all holding separate lots in the town of Manchester, and the court having decreed in favor of the appellees, this appeal was taken.
The appellees all except one insisted in their separate answers that Markham was not in his life time seized of the lots…
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