Eddy v. Moulton

This is a proceeding under Gen. Sfcat. R. I. cap. 218, § 17, 1 for the recovery of dower in two pieces of land in the city of Providence. The case comes here by appeal from the Municipal Court, the court exercising probate jurisdiction in said city. The demandant is the widow of the late Thomas W. Eddy, who was seised in fee in his lifetime, during his intermarriage with the demandant, of said two pieces of land, but mortgaged one of them for $14,000, and the other for $2,500, the demandant joining in the mortgages and releasing her right of dower. The two estates were, subsequent to the…