Jenkins v. Jenkins' Heirs

Chief Justice-Robertson

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

The only question itl this case, is, whether Anne Jenicjns is entitled to dower in the estate of Jonathan Jenkins, deceased, with whom she intermarried after it had been ascertained, by regular inquisition, that he was of “ unsound mincl,” and with whom she continued to cohabit from the date of the marriage until his death, although' he continued, as is alleged and not denied by her, to be of unsound mincl, without any lucid interval, from the date of the inquisition.

She insists, first, that there is no sufficient proof of his…