Legal Opinion

Broyles v. Nowlin

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1873Published

FROM WHITE. Appeal from the Chancery Court. W. W. Goodpasture, Chancellor.

1Opinion of the CourtSneed, J.

*192The only question for determination in this case is, whether the defendant, Mary A. E. Nowlin, as widow of A. S. Nowlin, is entitled to hold the dower interest already allotted to her in the lands in controversy as against the complainants. The record is vol-nmnious, and involves many other questions, hut no complaint is made of the decree below, except so much of it as reaffirms the action of'the County Court in assigning dower to said Avidow. A. S. Nowlin died in thé occupancy of the land in 1861, and dower was assigned the widow in June of that year, and she has been in possession of the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Corkhill v. LandersNew York Supreme Court · 1865

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