Supreme Court of North Carolina December 5, 1853 (Arrington v. . Yarbrough)

Battle. J.

It is now a well established principle of Equity, that if a married woman become entitled during her coverture to a legacy, or to a distributive share of an intestate’s estate, and her husband die without having reduced it into possession, or done anything equivalent thereto, the wife will be entitled to it, and may recover it to her own use. Garforth v. Bradley, 2 Ves. Sen.