Wakeman v. Roache

Upon the application of the plaintiffs to have an assignment of dower under the act of 1824, the defendant plead in bar the statute of limitations, and on the trial of the issue thereupon made up, the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs. This is a motion for a new trial, and the question the court is called on to decide is upon the validity and efficiency of the plea so offered in bar.

The court, in the course of its investigation of this question, has found no case, in which the right to have an assignment of dower has been held to be embraced within the provisions of either of the…