Cottrell v. Griffiths

The question involved in this case is what is the legal effect of a partition deed executed by two tenants in common, to a third tenant, a married woman, where the deed includes the husband as joint grantee, though no agreement upon any consideration was made for such conveyance, or, in fact, made at all, hut deed was executed under the following circumstances and upon the facts so showing, found by the Court of Chancery Appeals. Jesse Wells, the father of Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Cottrell and Mrs. Griffiths, was the owner of the land in controversy. He died, and it descended to these married ladies,…