Unger v. Price
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington county. Replevin by the appellants against the appellee for a grey mare and wagon. Pleas non cepit, property in defendant, and property in a stranger. Exception. The plaintiffs claimed the property as belonging to Elizabeth Unger, the wife of Frederick Unger.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington county. Replevin by the appellants against the appellee for a grey mare and wagon. Pleas non cepit, property in defendant, and property in a stranger. Exception. The plaintiffs claimed the property as belonging to Elizabeth Unger, the wife of Frederick Unger. The defendant levied upon the property under two executions issued on the 16th of March 1855, on two judgments recovered by hita against Frederick Unger, the husband, in December 1854, and purchased the same at the sale under these executions. The evidence in the case is sufficiently stated in…
1Opinion of the CourtMason, J.
In December 1854, Frederick Unger, one of the appellants, conveyed all his real estate to Adam Shank, in trust for his creditors, in which conveyance his wife Elizabeth did not join.
Afterwards, Shank, the trustee, sold the real estate to Lyr day, and Lyday being anxious to disincumber the estate of the contingent dower right of the wifej agreed with and did purchase of Mrs. Unger her potential right of dower in the land, for the sum of $500, and Mrs. Unger, together with her husband, made to Lyday a deed in order to extinguish the dower right. The purchase of the potential dower estate, and…
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