White v. Dance

Joseph Dance died in 1867, leaving a widow, but no lineal descendants, and leaving a will, by which he disposed of all his estate, giving to his wife the income only of his real and personal property during her life. The widow renounced the will under the tenth and eleventh sections of the statute of dower, and afterwards, under the fifteenth section of the same statute, she elected to take in lieu of dower, one-kalf the real estate remaining after the payment of debts. The circuit court decreed to her one-third of the personal estate, and from this order the executors have appealed,…