Pollock v. Columbia Bank

It is contended by the appellant, Mary D. Pojlock, that as her dower and homesteád rights in the land in question had not been admeasured and assigned to *391her, as provided by statute, the Columbia Bank acquired no title thereto by mortgage conveyance and foreclosure sale.

We will content ourselves by deciding the simple question here in issue: May a widow, before her dower interest has been admeasured and assigned, convey the, same in equity to a stranger so as to entitle the grantee to be subrogated to the rights of the widow to admeasurement and assignment of her dower interest? The decisions…