Ex parte Crittenden
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Petition for Mandamus. Ann J. Crittenden presented her petition to the Supreme Court setting forth that, on the 2d day of October, A.D. 1838, she filed her petition in the Circuit Court of Pulaski county, according to the statute, against William E. Woodruff, praying dower in certain lots in the city of Little Rock, purchased by said Woodruff of Robert Crittenden, deceased, her late husband, during the coverture and to which she had not relinquished her right of dower; that…
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Petition for Mandamus. Ann J. Crittenden presented her petition to the Supreme Court setting forth that, on the 2d day of October, A.D. 1838, she filed her petition in the Circuit Court of Pulaski county, according to the statute, against William E. Woodruff, praying dower in certain lots in the city of Little Rock, purchased by said Woodruff of Robert Crittenden, deceased, her late husband, during the coverture and to which she had not relinquished her right of dower; that such proceedings were had on her petition, that on the 15th day of April, A.D. 1839, by a decree of said Court, dower…
1Opinion of the Court
Johnson, C J.
This is an application to this Court for a Writ of Mandamus to the Circuit Qpurt of Pulaski county, to compel that Court to appoint commissioners to lay ofi* dower, and to do such other acts as are directed by a decree rendered against William E. Woodruff on the 15th day of April,, 1839, and in favor of the complainant. At the September term of the same year, Woodruff, the defendant in the Coui;t below, filed his petition to have said decree set aside and for a re-hearing, which, upon consideration, was refused. At the March term, A.D. 1840, Woodruff filed his second petition for…
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