Shepard v. Shepard
New York Court of Chancery
THE bill stated, that the plaintiff was the widow of Hazel Shepard, deceased. That before their marriage, in May, 1806, H. S., being seised of fifty acres of land, in Pittstown, and part of lot 8, in Hoosiclc’s patent, in Rensselaer county, executed a deed, dated April 12th, 1806, reciting their intended marriage, and that if they should purchase any real estate during their marriage, the plaintiff should have a right of dower in the same during her widowhood, and he…
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THE bill stated, that the plaintiff was the widow of Hazel Shepard, deceased. That before their marriage, in May, 1806, H. S., being seised of fifty acres of land, in Pittstown, and part of lot 8, in Hoosiclc’s patent, in Rensselaer county, executed a deed, dated April 12th, 1806, reciting their intended marriage, and that if they should purchase any real estate during their marriage, the plaintiff should have a right of dower in the same during her widowhood, and he released to her dower therein ; “ but no other right of dower to any other real or personal estate he then had, or might have,…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The plaintiff, upon the facts arising out of the bill and answer, claims the assistance of the Court, (1.) to make effectual, according to the terms of it, the deed to her from her husband, Hazel Shepherd, of the 26th of December, 1808; or, if that deed cannot be enforced as against the defendant, thqt then, (2.) the defendant be decreed to pay to her the annuity of 60 dollars, according to the terms of bis covenant made to her husband, on the 6th of January, 1817; or, (3.) that her dower in the real estate, whereof her husband was seised, and which is now claimed by the…
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