Dehart v. Dehart

Lively, President :

The bill of plaintiff below, appellant here, is against the heirs and distributees of her deceased husband, Herman K. Debart, for assignment of dower in tbe lands of which he died seized. Answers were filed which set up two grounds of estop-pel against said claim for dower. The first was that she had voluntarily left her husband without cause such as would have entitled her to a divorce from the bonds of matrimony, or from bed and board, and without just cause and of her own free will was living separate and apart from him at the time of his death. This is the statutory bar…