Ralston Steel Car Co. v. Ralston

Permanent leaseholds have become so numerous in all the large cities of Ohio that the question is one of tremendous public interest, yet that fact has no bearing upon the legal questions involved. The legal question is purely one of statutory interpretation. Dower is a creature of statute and the controversy therefore turns upon the meaning and intent of Section 8606, General Code:

“A widow or widower, who has not relinquished or been barred of it, shall be endowed of an estate for life in one-third of all the real property of .which the deceased consort was seized as an estate of inheritance…