Young v. . R. R.

The land in controversy originally belonged to J. C. Surles, who died sometime prior to the year 1884, and was included in the dower allotment to his widow, Mary E. Surles, who in the year 1886, conveyed her interest to the Wilmington Weldon Railroad Company. Said land is now owned by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, defendant. The Wilmington Weldon Railroad Company consolidated with defendant and it took over the land. The fee-simple title to the land in controversy, subject to the dower right of Mary E. Surles, was conveyed by Daniel Stewart, commissioner, to H. A. Hodges, the same…