Enyard v. Enyard

Citations

• 190 Pa. 114
• 42 A. 526
• 1899 Pa. LEXIS 991

Syllabus

<p>Bower — Estate in land.</p> <p>The statutory dower of a widow is not a lien upon the land but is an interest in it; an estate given by the intestate laws.</p> <p>Tenants in common — Bower estate — Acquisition of adverse title.</p> <p>Where one of two tenants in common dies and his widow immediately after Ms death buys the property at a sheriff’s sale had under proceedings to collect arrears of ground rent, she cannot set up the title thus acquired to the exclusion of the other tenant in common. Her dower interest in the land gives her such an estate as will bring her within the general rule that where one is interested with another in an estate an implied obligation arises to sustain the common interest.</p>