Aikman v. Harsell

There was no actual admeasurement of the dower of Mrs. L. A. Blackwell up to the time of the death of her son, Joseph Blackwell, in 1859. The joining of the mother with her son, Joseph, and her daughter, Mrs. Poillon, in the lease to Josiah W. Baker, did not amount to an admeasurement or assignment of her dower. For what purpose she joined in the execution of that lease does not appear from the evidence, but it is clear from Baker’s testimony that Joseph Blackwell was the party to whom all the rents were paid, and who assumed the right, in consideration of money paid by Baker to him, to make…