French v. Lord
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report for the legal adjudication of the rights of the parties by the law court which is to decide of what portion, if any, the demandant is dowable, and upon what principles the dower is to bo assigned and damages to be assessed, the damages for detention to be assessed by the commissioners who may be appointed to assign the dower in the land.
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On report for the legal adjudication of the rights of the parties by the law court which is to decide of what portion, if any, the demandant is dowable, and upon what principles the dower is to bo assigned and damages to be assessed, the damages for detention to be assessed by the commissioners who may be appointed to assign the dower in the land. The demandant claims to be endowed of 31-35 parts of 1-3 of the wharf and lot at the foot of Exchange street, in Bangor, known as City Point Wharf, at the junction of the Kenduskeag stream with Penobscot river. The general issue was pleaded with…
1Opinion of the CourtYirgin, J.
This demandant in her action against Crosby (61 Maine, 502,) having recovered her dower in the land held under levies numbered one and two in this record, being one-seventh and one-fifth or twelve-thirty-fifths of her husband’s former interest, now seeks to recover it in the remaining twenty-three-thirty-fifths.
A portion of the land in which dower is here claimed was taken, after the death of her husband, by a railroad company for railroad purposes, and has been so occupied ever since.
A widow is not dowable of lands taken for public use. And the reason is obvions. In all such cases a division…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Elmendorf v. . LockwoodNew York Court of Appeals · 1874
- Morton v. NobleIllinois Supreme Court · 1870
3Cited by4 opinions
- Nickell v. TomlinsonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1886
- United States v. Certain Parcels of Land in City of AnnapolisDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1942
- Salvatore v. FuscellaroSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1933
- In re City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1935