Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March 15, 1848 (Blaney v. Blaney)

Metcalf, J.

The plaintiff’s claim is founded on St. 1839, c. 96, $ 1, which is in these words: “ Whenever the estate of one or more devisees under a will shall be taken or assigned, by the judge of probate, for the dower of the widow of the testator, or be set out to her upon a judgment rendered in an action of dower at common law, all the other devisees and legatees shall contribute their