114 Ky. 289 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1902
Opinion op the court by
— Affirming.
Appellant and her late husband, Geo. L. Helm, were married in 1848. The husband died intestate in 1897. In October, 1880, he was seised in fee simple of a tract of land then in Muhlenberg county, now McLean county, containing about 757 acres. A portion of this land (nine lots) her husband sold and conveyed (she joining in the conveyances)
It seems to be the contention of the appellant that her right to dower in this land became fixed or vested as of October, 1850; that then it was the law that the wife should be endowed of her husband’s lands, without regard to liens or obligations for purchase money or other cause, except she voluntarily relinquished such right; that the Revised Statutes, adopted in 1852, by section 6, art, 3, c. 47, and
It follows that the judgment of the circuit court should be affirmed.
Petition for rehearing by appellant overruled.