Herrington v. Coburn

Citations

• 108 Ill. 613
• 1884 Ill. LEXIS 1522

Syllabus

<p>Dower—effect of a partition. A husband being seized of an interest in land, with his wife, conveyed an undivided half thereof by a deed which failed to release the wife’s dower. Afterward they conveyed the other half interest by a deed in which the wife’s dower was duly released. The proprietors laid the land out into city lots, after which a partition was made between the several owners under a decree of court, to which neither the husband nor his wife was made a party: H'eld, that on the husband’s death the wife was entitled to dower as to the undivided half interest conveyed by her husband in his first deed, and that she was not concluded by the decree of partition, so as to be compelled to seek her dower in the lots set off to the party claiming under her deed which failed to release dower.</p>