Meyer v. Gossett
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Ouachita Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. J. K. Young, Circuit Judge. STATEMENT. Mrs. Gossett and her minor children, the heirs of John Gossett, deceased, filed in the Ouachita Circuit Court their complaint in equity against Meyer, alleging in substance, that in 1875, her husband, the said John Gossett, to secure a debt he owed to Meyer, had executed to him a deed upon certain stock and a tract of land in Nevada county, called the Beard place.
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APPEAL from Ouachita Circuit Court in Chancery. Hon. J. K. Young, Circuit Judge. STATEMENT. Mrs. Gossett and her minor children, the heirs of John Gossett, deceased, filed in the Ouachita Circuit Court their complaint in equity against Meyer, alleging in substance, that in 1875, her husband, the said John Gossett, to secure a debt he owed to Meyer, had executed to him a deed upon certain stock and a tract of land in Nevada county, called the Beard place. That afterwards Meyer agreed to release said stock, and reconvey said land to said Gossett, in consideration that he would secure said debt…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION.
English, C. J.
The court below decreed Mrs. Gossett. dower in the land embraced in the deed of trust of first of May, 1876, executed by her deceased husband, sold by the trustee, and purchased by appellant, Henry W. Meyer, on the ground that though she signed the deed she did not acknowedge it in the manner prescribed by the Statute. It is submitted here for her, that she did not join her husband in the deed, and therefore her relinquishment of dower, if properly acknowledged, was invalid, and the decree, on that ground right.
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