Brown v. Adams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Upon a writ of error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, it appeared, that James Brown and Elizabeth, his wife, (late Elizabeth Adams,) brought a writ of dower unde nihil habet against Robert Adams, to March Term 1836, of that court, and counted as follows : “ James Brown and Elizabeth Brown, his wife, late Elizabeth , Adams, widow of William Adams, to the use of Charles Treichel, demand in right of said Elizabeth, who was the wife of William…
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Upon a writ of error to the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, it appeared, that James Brown and Elizabeth, his wife, (late Elizabeth Adams,) brought a writ of dower unde nihil habet against Robert Adams, to March Term 1836, of that court, and counted as follows : “ James Brown and Elizabeth Brown, his wife, late Elizabeth , Adams, widow of William Adams, to the use of Charles Treichel, demand in right of said Elizabeth, who was the wife of William Adams, deceased, by their attorney, against Robert Adams, the third part of the one equal moiety or undivided half part of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
That the wife of Brown, the plaintiff, as the widow of William Adams, deceased, has a right or interest of some kind, in the land in question, cannot very well be denied. Indeed there is not the least colour for gainsaying it, unless it be that the sale of the land by the guardian of the two children, who were minors at the time and the only heirs of the deceased, made in pursuance of an order of the Orphans’ Court, for the purpose of raising money for their maintenance and education, divested the mother and widow of all her right and…
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