Whitted Ex Rel. Grady v. Wade

Winborne, C. J.:

The question involved on this appeal is. stated by appellant substantially in this manner: Is the plain tiff barred by G.S. 30-1 or by laches from dissenting from the will of her late husband, William G. Whitted, and from demanding an allotment of dower in his lands, and from obtaining an accounting for rents and profits on account of her alleged dower interest therein ? It was in this strain that the trial court briefed the law, and we hold properly so, in the light of the stipulated facts.

General Statutes 30-1, enacted in 1869, Laws 1868-9, Chap. 93, Sec. 37, and brought…