Shockley v. Clifton

2 Del. Cas. 627, 1821 Del. LEXIS 20

Opinion

The Chancellor

decreed that Mary Shockley should have her dower. He said that the partition made by the devisees of John Ralston, Esq., although she asquiesced in it, was not a bar to her recovery; and he referred to Kennedy v. Nedrow et ux. et al., 1 Dall. 415, where the widow, a devisee, herself caused partition to be made, and nevertheless recovered her dower; and this he said was a much stronger case. Her acquiescence was no bar.