Hill v. House Creek Coal Land Co.

POEREETBARGER, JUDGE:

The decree here complained of sustained a bill for assignment of dower in a tract of land, despite and against the deed of the alleged complainant, on the theory of a fatal defect -therein, apparent on its face, and forgery of the signature and certificate of acknowledgment.

The deed purports to, and did, as to the husband of the complainant, convey this land in exchange for three other tracts, which the deceased -husband seems to have conveyed away in his lifetime by deeds in which his wife joined, so as to pass her inchoate right of dower, although the testimony leaves…