Adcock v. Shaw

Mrs. Havilah Adcock brought her petition for injunction and other relief against Mrs. Lena Shaw. On the hearing the court passed an order sustaining a demurrer to the petition as amended, and dismissed the case. The plaintiff sued out a writ of error. The petition alleged that the defendant was proceeding to have set apart as a year’s support all the property of her deceased husband, G. A. Shaw, and unless restrained by injunction she would secure an order from the court of ordinary approving the return of the appraisers setting aside to her all the property; that the deceased while in life…