Dunseth v. Bank of the United States

Judge Wood

delivered the opinion of the court:

The complainant, widow of Andrew Dunseth, filed her petition in the court of common pleas of Hamilton county, claiming dower in certain lands in the city of Cincinnati.

The lands were alienated by the husband, and finally passed to the Bank of the United States.

The complainant obtained a decree in the court of common pleas, and the defendant appealed.

All the facts necessary to establish the complainant’s right to dower in the lands in question, viz : that they can not be divided without injury; that the complainant can not, therefore, be endowed *in…