Gerhardt v. Sullivan

The bill is to assign dower. The complainant and the deceased, Paul E. Gerhardt, were married December 14th, 1920. He died August 29th, 1929, testate. At the time of the marriage and until his death Gerhardt was seized in fee of five improved tracts of land in Newark. At the time of the marriage two of the properties were encumbered by a mortgage given by him to secure his bond, and another he purchased subject to a mortgage, and upon that tract he, after the marriage, gave a mortgage to secure his bond, in which the complainant did not join. Gerhardt left personal property sufficient to pay…