In re the Real Estate of Lamonica

The question presented is whether a simple debt contracted by a man before marriage, and not reduced to judgment prior to his marriage, has priority over a widow’s dower in the proceeds of the sale of his real estate sold by the administrator for the payment of debts.

The petitioner bases her claim largely upon the language of Section 3303 of the Revised Code of 1915 and upon authority of the case of Brinckloe v. Brinckloe reported as a note to the case of Griffin v. Reece, 1 Har. 508.

From an examination of the reports of this State and of the records in the office of the Orphans’ Court in and…