Cook v. First National Bank

Dower is the right of a wife to an estate for life in one third of the lands, according to valuation, of which the husband was seized and possessed at the time of his death. Civil Code (1910), § 5247. Seizin of the husband is essential to entitle the wife to dower. A widow is not dowable of lands which her husband had by deed conveyed to another to secure an indebtedness, where the husband died before the debt so secured was paid. McDonald v. McDonald, 120 Ga. 403 (47 S. E. 918); Harris v. Powers, 129 Ga. 74 (58 S. E. 1038, 12 Ann. Cas. 475); McPhaul v. McPhaul, 150 Ga. 486 (104 S. E. 241).…