Gay v. Lockridge

Dent, Judge :

Lillie B. Lockridge appeals Prom a decree of the Circuit. Court of Pocahontas county in the case of Levi Gay and J. P. Hawkins, plaintiffs, against J. B. Lockridge et al., and assigns for error the holding of the court that she was not entitled to dower in the land in controversy. The facts are as follows: James T. Lockridge, the husband of appellant, during his lifetime, was seised in fee simple of a certain one thousand four hundred and thirty-four-acre tract of land, which was sold to pay liens thereon inferior to the appellant’s contingent right of dower therein, in the year…