Lovelace v. Lovelace

The record in this case, upon an agreed state of facts, presents the question whether the widow of an intestate, dying seized and possessed of real estate, is, under our laws, entitled to take both dower and homestead in said lands.

The circuit judge, to whom the question was submitted by agreement, so held, and the defendants, heirs at law of said intestate, have appealed to this court.

The right to dower is not questioned, but it is insisted that the later acts, passed since the adoption of the constitution of 1870, were intended to enlarge that right by pro*429tecting the homestead to the value…