Ellingwood v. Ellingwood
Supreme Court of Vermont
Appeal in Chancery. Bill to set aside a conveyance of real estate, and for an accounting for rent received. Heard on bill, answer cross-bill, and facts found by the chancellor, at the October Term, 1915, Windham County, Fish, Chancellor. Decree, adjudging the deed in question to be null and void, and ordering defendant Adelaide S. Ellingwood to account to the orator for certain rents received by her. The defendants appealed. The case is stated in the opinion.
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Appeal in Chancery. Bill to set aside a conveyance of real estate, and for an accounting for rent received. Heard on bill, answer cross-bill, and facts found by the chancellor, at the October Term, 1915, Windham County, Fish, Chancellor. Decree, adjudging the deed in question to be null and void, and ordering defendant Adelaide S. Ellingwood to account to the orator for certain rents received by her. The defendants appealed. The case is stated in the opinion. The deed of Sumner Ellingwood to Ellen M. Reed, being a conveyance of the homestead, without the wife of Ellingwood joining therein,…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
On September 23, 1902, the plaintiff, Sumner Ellingwood, then a married man and the husband of Fanny M. Ellingwood, gave a quit claim deed of his homestead situated in Yernon, this State, to the defendant Ellen M. Reed, then a married woman and the wife of Marshall I. Reed, the said Fanny M. not joining in its execution and acknowledgment. Thereafter, on the same day, Ellen M. Reed gave her sole quit claim deed of the same premises to Fanny M. Ellingwood, the wife of Sumner. Each of these deeds was signed by two witnesses, one of whom was the husband of Ellen M. Reed, and each was…
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