Bradford v. Culbreth

Rodney, J.,

charging the jury:

This is an action at law for dower brought by the plaintiff, 'Helen Rogers Bradford, against the named defendants. By the action the plaintiff not only seeks to have assigned and set off to her, for her life, the one-third part of the lands and premises mentioned in the writ and declaration, or the one-third part of the net rental value thereof, but by the action the plaintiff seeks also to recover reasonable damages for the detention of her dower in the past from the time she contends she became dowable, and this date from which the plaintiff claims she was…