Yarbrough v. Yarbrough
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from'Law and Equity Court, Lee County; Lum Duke, Judge. Bill by Nannie L. Yarbrough against C. S. Yarbrough. Decree for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtThomas, J.
The bill in this cause seeks to have the chancery court assign dower in lands alienated by the husband without relinquishment by the wife. The right of dower and the procedure for assignment thereof is dealt with in chapter 77, p. 554 et seq. of the Code of 1907.
When on March 3, 1912, A. B. Yarbrough died, leaving a wife (the appellee), she was entitled to have assigned to her dower in “a certain portion of the following real estate of her husband, to which she has [had] not relinquished her right during the marriage : (1) Of all lands of which the husband was seized in fee during the…
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