Webb v. Smith
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Franklin Circuit Court. Hon. J. S. Carrighan, Special Judge. 1. The homestead right of the widow ceased on her marriage. 2. The order of the Court selling the four lots subject to her dower, and her acceptance of it by the purchase of the reversion, is a valid assignment of her dower in the whole estate. 2. If not, she is, by obtaining that property in the manner she did, estopped from setting up a right of dower m the fractional lot bought by Webb. 3. And if…
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APPEAL from Franklin Circuit Court. Hon. J. S. Carrighan, Special Judge. 1. The homestead right of the widow ceased on her marriage. 2. The order of the Court selling the four lots subject to her dower, and her acceptance of it by the purchase of the reversion, is a valid assignment of her dower in the whole estate. 2. If not, she is, by obtaining that property in the manner she did, estopped from setting up a right of dower m the fractional lot bought by Webb. 3. And if not, still her only equity is to have dower assigned-in the whole estate, including the four lots, in which case it must be…
1Opinion of the Court
STATEMENT.
English, C. J.
Almeda Smith brought this suit for dower in the Circuit Court of Eranklin county against Perry F. Webb.
The bill alleged, in substance, that about the — day of -, 186 — , complainant intermarried with Robert C. Tweedy, who afterwards, on the 6th of April, 1870, died. That during their coverture, he was seized of an estate of inheritance in an undivided half of part of lot one, block five, in the town of Ozark, bounded as follows: “Beginning at the north east corner of said lot, thence west sixty feet, .thence south twi uty feet, thence east sixty feet, thence north…
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