Davis v. Lowden

Pitney, V. C.

This is a bill by a widow against the heir-at-law of her husband asking that dower be set off to her; also asking for rents and profits of premises in which she claims a quarantine, until dower shall be set off.

The facts are as follows: The husband, Lester Davis, died on the 23d of June, 1896, testate of a will in which he gave to the complainant $2,000 in addition to her right of dower in his real estate. He devised all the rest of his estate, real and personal, to his son, Lester Roscoe Davis, an infant under the age of fourteen years, the issue of a prior marriage.

The testator…