Bowie v. Stonestreet
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Equity Side of the Circuit Court for Prince Georges county. The bill in this case was filed in the summer of 1848 by the appellees, who were creditors of Robert W. Bowie, deceased, who died in January 1848, for the sale of his real estate to pay his debts. Mrs. Bowie, the appellant, who is the widow of the deceased, was made a defendant to this bill, and by her answer, filed in December 1848, set up a claim to a portion of said real estate.
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Appeal from the Equity Side of the Circuit Court for Prince Georges county. The bill in this case was filed in the summer of 1848 by the appellees, who were creditors of Robert W. Bowie, deceased, who died in January 1848, for the sale of his real estate to pay his debts. Mrs. Bowie, the appellant, who is the widow of the deceased, was made a defendant to this bill, and by her answer, filed in December 1848, set up a claim to a portion of said real estate. The court below, (Crain, J.,) rejected her claim, and from that decision she appealed. All the facts of the case are sufficiently stated…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
The claim against the estate of Robert W. Bowie, by his widow, Catharine Bowie, as a creditor, has jected by the decision of the circuit court for Prince* county, and from that decision this appeal is taken.
Mrs. Bowie’s claim is set out in her answer, in which she? alleges, that, at the time of her marriage she was possessed of a valuable tract of land in her own right, which she inherited from her father. That some years after the marriage, her husband, (being largely indebted,) frequently importuned her to consent to a sale of her land for the payment of his debts, *426which she refused to do…
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