Van Dyke v. Wood
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Virginia Wood, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 28th day of- November, 1900, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the New York Special Term overruling said defendant’s demurrer to the complaint. .
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J. :
The complaint alleges that the appellant and William G-. Wood are husband and wife ; that on the 1st of November, 1891, at the request of Mrs. Wood, her husband conveyed to her real estate of the value of $300,000 upon the sole consideration and agreement that she would release all her dower rights in any lands owned by him then or at any time thereafter, and would whenever requested join in the execution of all deeds and mortgages affecting said lands without any further consideration. It is stated in the complaint that the land thus conveyed to Mrs. Wood was of much greater…
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