Legal Opinion

Atwood v. Arnold

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided February 21, 1902PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Bill in Equity to compel the assignment of certain mortgages under Gen. Laws cap. 207, § 7.

1Opinion of the CourtStiness, C. J.

The complainant has an inchoate right of dower in an undivided half of the Apponaug hotel estate, owned by the respondent Arnold. - Two mortgages on the estate are held by Nellie J. Charlton, but, as the answer admits, they were transferred to her in part by funds advanced by Arnold, and they are under his control. One of these mortgages was made by the complainant’s husband, before her marriage ; and the second after her marriáge, in which she released dower. Her husband conveyed his half part of the property to Arnold, but in this deed the complainant did not join. She brings this bill to…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Frisbee v. FrisbeeSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1894
  2. Vaughan v. DowdenIndiana Supreme Court · 1891
  3. Smith v. HallSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1892
  4. Mason v. TuttleSupreme Court of Virginia · 1880

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Blackett v. ZieglerSupreme Court of Iowa · 1910
  2. Henze v. MitchellNebraska Supreme Court · 1913
  3. United States v. Certain Lands in Town of PortsmouthU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island · 1909

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