Mines v. Phee

Upon application by the administratrix of the estate of Hugh L. Mines for authority to sell a part of his real estate for the payment of debts, his widow, Mary Mines, claimed dower. The probate court of Cook county made a decree of sale denying the widow’s right. The only question upon this appeal is the sufficiency of an alleged ante-nuptial contract to bar the widow’s dower.

The decedent and the appellant were married on October 26, 1898, and two days before that event they signed and acknowledged, in duplicate, a. written agreement, by the terms of which they mutually released all dower…