Chapman v. Schroeder
Supreme Court of Georgia
Application for dower, in Monroe Superior Court. Heard before Judge Stark, March Term, 1851. The defendant in error, as the widow of John A. Schroeder, filed her application in Monroe Superior Court, to have her dower assigned her in a lot of land lying in Monroe County, and granted by the State of Georgia to the said John A. Schroeder, on the 6th day of June, 1822, and by him conveyed, on the same day, to the plaintiff in error.
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Application for dower, in Monroe Superior Court. Heard before Judge Stark, March Term, 1851. The defendant in error, as the widow of John A. Schroeder, filed her application in Monroe Superior Court, to have her dower assigned her in a lot of land lying in Monroe County, and granted by the State of Georgia to the said John A. Schroeder, on the 6th day of June, 1822, and by him conveyed, on the same day, to the plaintiff in error. The application was traversed on the following grounds: 1st. Because John A. Schroeder being an alien, was never seized of the land out of which the demandant claims…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Warner, J.
delivering the opinion.
This is an application for dower under the law as it existed pwtothe enactment of the Statute of 1826, limiting the wife’s right to dower in such lands of which her husband died seized and possessed, and such as the husband acquired by his intermarriage with the wife. The tract of land in which the demandant *325claims dower, was drawn by John A. Schroeder, in the land lottery of this State, granted to him on the 6th day of June, 1822, and on the same day conveyed by him to Ambrose Chapman, the defendant.
On the trial of the cause in the Court below,…
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