Fleming v. Fleming

Blackford, J.;

Rachel Fleming filed a petition in 1843 against the heirs at law of her deceased husband, James Fleming. The object of the petition was to obtain dower in certain real estate in Scott county, of which the said James was said to have been seised during the coverture. Some of the defendants were infants, whose guardian ad litem answered for them in the usual form. The other defendants filed two pleas: 1. That the petitioner and said James Fleming were never lawfully married; 2. That the petitioner had received certain property in lieu of dower. Replications to these pleas and…