Blevins v. Buck
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Dallas. Heard before the Hon. James B. Clark. This bill was filed in April, 1852, by Daniel Buck and S. D. Hale against the appellant, as the administrator of Mrs. Margaret 0. Blevins, deceased.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Dallas. Heard before the Hon. James B. Clark. This bill was filed in April, 1852, by Daniel Buck and S. D. Hale against the appellant, as the administrator of Mrs. Margaret 0. Blevins, deceased. It alleges that in March, 1846, Mrs. Blevins, who was then the wife of John Blevins, filed her bill in the Chancery Court at Huntsville against her husband and the administrators of John Connally, deceased, who was her father ; that said bill was filed under the provisions of the act of February 4, 1846, entitled “ an act to protect the rights of married women,” and…
1Opinion of the CourtRice, J.
—The equity of the wife to a settlement out of her choses in action and equitable interests, was a right well known in this State, at and before the passage of the act of February 4th, 1846, entitled “ an act to protect the rights of married women.”
By the first section of that act it is provided, “ that in all cases where a married woman may be entitled to a legacy, or to a distributive share of the estate of a deceased person, or to any other chose in action, not reduced to possession, she may, by filing a bill in chancery, have such legacy, distributive share, or choses in action, vested in…
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