Purdy v. Purdy

The Chancellor :

The question involved in this case has twice engaged the attention of the Court of Appeals, and upon each of these occasions, the widows claiming dower in lands which had been held by equitable titles in their husbands, were defeated.

In the first case, which was that of Hopkins et al. vs. Frey, 2 Gill, 359, the husband executed a mortgage of the land *548prior to the marriage, and then after the .marriage, but prior to the Act of 1818, ch. 193, he mortgaged his equity of redemption, which was sold under a decree obtained by the mortgagees in the year 1823, and it was against these…