Waller v. Mardus
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from, Monroe Circuit Court. Demurrer to a petition. From tlie petition it appeared that Nathan H. Mardus died in the year 1853, seized and possessed of certain real estate, leaving a widow, Parmelia Mardus, and children. In 1855 said widow intermarried with Solomon Stickell.
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Appeal from, Monroe Circuit Court. Demurrer to a petition. From tlie petition it appeared that Nathan H. Mardus died in the year 1853, seized and possessed of certain real estate, leaving a widow, Parmelia Mardus, and children. In 1855 said widow intermarried with Solomon Stickell. Certain creditors of said Stickell obtained judgments against him for debts contracted after said intermarriage, and executions were issued thereunder, and his interest in his wife’s dower interest in said real estate was levied on and sold, and the plaintiffs became the purchasers. The plaintiffs pray that the…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
This is a suit, by purchasers under an execution at a sheriff’s sale, against a former widow and her husband, to have her dower in her first husband’s estate assigned to them. N. H. Mardus was seized of lands, and died, leaving Parmelia Mardus his widow, who was- entitled to dower in his estate, but which was never assigned to her. She, Parmelia, intermarried with the defendant Solomon Stickell, who during the marriage contracted debts for which he was sued, and, *27judgment having been recovered, afterwards executions issuing to Monroe county, Mrs. Stickell’s dower interest in her former…
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