Shively v. Elkhorn Coal Corporation

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Dietzman —

Affirming.

On January .13,1898, the appellant, Polly Arnett and her sister, Melvina Hackworth, deeded a described boun dary of land to William Arnett. At that time both Melvina Hackworth and Polly Arnett were married women. Although their husbands signed and acknowledged this deed, the names of neither of the husbands appeared in [he body of the deed as grantors expressly or impliedly, and neither of them had previously made a separate conveyance of this property. Under a long line of decisions in this state, some of which are collected in the recent case…