Brown v. Brown
The Superior Court of New York City
This is an action under the Code (in the nature of a suit in equity), to recover plaintiff’s dower' in twelve lots of land and a dwelling house at Harlem, conveyed by plaintiff’s husband in bis life time to defendant, and occupied by the alienee at all times thereafter. The complaint alleges these facts, and that the plaintiff had demanded her dower, and defendant refused to assign it to her.
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This is an action under the Code (in the nature of a suit in equity), to recover plaintiff’s dower' in twelve lots of land and a dwelling house at Harlem, conveyed by plaintiff’s husband in bis life time to defendant, and occupied by the alienee at all times thereafter. The complaint alleges these facts, and that the plaintiff had demanded her dower, and defendant refused to assign it to her. The prayer of the complaint is,-that plaintiff’s dower maybe assigned and admeasured to her, and that she may be put in possession, and that she may be paid one-third the rents of the premises, and that…
1Opinion of the Court
By the court, Robertson, Ch. J.
It was adjudged in this ease that the plaintiff was entitled to dower in certain' land at Harlem, in the city of New York, lying between Sixth and Seventh avenues, and running through from One Hundred and Twenty-fifth to One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street, being one hundred and fifty feet wide, by about two hundred deep; and also to one-third of the rents of such land (after certain deductions), from a certain day in the year 1855, to the present time, exclusive of any arising from improvements on such premises made since their alienation. Judgment was rendered…
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