Drewry v. Montgomery

Sarah E. Drewry, the appellant, filed, her bill in the Lafayette circuit court, setting up that her husband, in bis lifetime, made a will which, alter his death, was duly probated, the provisions of which, in her favor, she declined to accept. Drewry, at the_time of his death, was one of the partners of a firm known as Howell & Drewry, and of the mercantile house of P. B. Wheat & Co., and the bill prays that she have dower in the real and personal estate of the poperty belonging to these copartnerships.

Howell, the administrator of Drewry, and surviving partner of the firm of Howell & Drewry,…