Foster v. Foster

This suit was instituted in the Johnson county circuit court for the assignment of dower, and it is averred in the petition that plaintiff was married to James M. Foster, and that during the coverture and on the 12th day of March, 1861, James Foster was seized to the use of said James M. Foster, his son, of an estate of inheritance in certain lands in the petition described ; that said James M. Foster procured a deed to be executed to said James Foster to said lands with the intent to defraud plaintiff of her right of dower in the same. It is also averred that plaintiff was subsequently…