Unangst v. Kraemer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the Common Pleas of Northampton county. This was an action of debt brought on the 22d July 1842, by Henry Kraemer, administrator of Henry Kraemer, deceased, against Joseph Unangst, to recover $390.76, the principal sum of the dower of the widow of the plaintiff’s intestate.
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ERROR to the Common Pleas of Northampton county. This was an action of debt brought on the 22d July 1842, by Henry Kraemer, administrator of Henry Kraemer, deceased, against Joseph Unangst, to recover $390.76, the principal sum of the dower of the widow of the plaintiff’s intestate. The declaration stated that the plaintiff’s intestate died about the 1st February 1795, seised of a tract of land, &c., which was afterwards sold under an order of the Orphans’ Court, subject to a charge of one-third of the purchase money for the use of the widow, and that a deed for it, dated 15th July 1815, was…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
This is an action to recover $390.76 charged on the defendant’s land to secure the widow’s dower, the interest to be paid to her during life, and the principal after her death. It is not brought against him personally, but in respect to the land of which he is the assignee and owner, and for this purpose it has been ruled in Pidcock v. Bye, debt or assumpsit, under certain circumstances, is an appropriate remedy, the court taking care to give such a judgment as shall affect the real estate only, charged with the payment.
The principal grounds…
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