Dickinson v. Glenney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Petition in chancery to compel the conveyance of real estate. The land in question was conveyed in 1823, by one Platt to Maria S. Dickinson, the wife of Isaac Dickinson. The consideration was in part paid from the proceeds of property belonging to her before marriage, it not appearing how the rest was paid.
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Petition in chancery to compel the conveyance of real estate. The land in question was conveyed in 1823, by one Platt to Maria S. Dickinson, the wife of Isaac Dickinson. The consideration was in part paid from the proceeds of property belonging to her before marriage, it not appearing how the rest was paid. On the 4th of October, 1824, she united with her husband in the execution of an instrument intended as a conveyance of the land to a third party, who at the same time executed a conveyance to the said Isaac, the object being to transfer the title from her to her husband. The deed executed…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, C. J.
The instrument which the superior court is solicited to correct, was a deed of a married woman, purporting in the body of it to be her deed only, and acknowledged by herself alone, but executed by her and her husband, conveying her real estate to a third person who immediately deeded it to her husband; neither transfer resting upon any actual consideration. The petitioner is a devisee of her husband; the respondents are heirs of the wife ; so that each is a mere representative of one or the other, and has no better *110position in a court of chancery than his predecessor would hold if living.
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