[DOWNLOAD] "Beulah Stelle, Plaintiff in Error v. Daniel Carroll" by United States Supreme Court # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Beulah Stelle, Plaintiff in Error v. Daniel Carroll
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1838
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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This is an action of dower, and was brought by the plaintiff in error against the defendant, in the circuit court for Washington county, in the District of Columbia, to recover her dower in lots No. 16, 17, 18, and 19, in square No. 728, in the city of Washington. At the trial of the case, the circuit court instructed the jury that the demandant was not entitled to recover; to which instruction, no exception was taken: and the verdict and judgment being for the defendant, the case has been brought here by the demandant, by writ of error. The claim for dower in lot No. 19, seems to have been abandoned, as no evidence in relation to it is contained in the record. As respects the other three lots, it appears that Pontius D. Stelle was seised of them in fee, during the coverture of the demandant; and being so seised, by deeds duly executed and recorded, mortgaged them in fee to a certain Peter Miller. The deeds were acknowledged by the demandant, on privy examination, according to the act of assembly of Maryland; which was in force when congress assumed jurisdiction over the District of Columbia.