Anna Johnson, the widow of Whittington Johnson, late of Mispillion Hundred, deceased, appears in open court this August 6, 1821, in her proper person, and elects to take her dower and relinquishes all claim under the will of her said late husband to the real estate thereby devised to her.
Then the said Anna Johnson presented her petition to the Orphans' Court this day, and stated that her husband, W. Johnson, died about November 16, 1820, being at the time of his death owner of a certain tract or parcel of land situate in Mispillion Hundred containing between four hundred and five hundred acres adjoining etc., and being at the time of his death in the actual possession and seisin thereof, etc. And [she] prayed that her dower might be laid off etc.
THE CHANCELLOR.
Whittington Johnson did not die seised of an estate of inheritance in this land, and therefore the case does not come within the description of lands mentioned in the Act of Assembly entitled "An Act respecting devises of lands, joint estates and dower," passed in the year 1816 [ 5 Del. Laws 174]. And the husband did not die intestate, so that on no ground can she proceed in this Court to obtain her dower.
The election to take her dower, and the petition on the motion of Mr. Brinckle were withdrawn, neither having been entered on the record, and John M. Clayton agreeing thereto. He opposed the assignment of dower on the part of Walter Douglass, a creditor.