Smith v. Oglesby

Citations

• 33 S.C. 194
• 11 S.E. 687
• 1890 S.C. LEXIS 119

Syllabus

<p>1. A widow will not be permitted to recover an interest in a tract of land in which she had never relinquished her inheritance, but which was conveyed while she was a feme covert, more than thirty years before, under a family arrangement between herself and her brothers and sisters. The decision in Smith v. Tanner, 32 S. 0., 259, which involved the same settlement, reaffirmed.</p> <p>2. Where a married woman, with all the powers of a feme sole, agreed in writing, for valuable consideration, to release her dower in a tract of land, she will be thereafter, when ,a widow, estopped from claiming dower therein, although she had never made any formal renunciation of her dower rights.</p> <p>3. Per McIver, A. J. This case distinguished from Townsend v. Brown, 16 S. 0., 91.</p>