Burson's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Common Pleas of Greene county. Sarab Burson, the appellant, was first married to John Walton. After bis death she intermarried with Levi Burson. The second marriage was contracted before the passage of the Act 11th April, 1848, to secure the rights of married women.
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Appeal from the decree of the Common Pleas of Greene county. Sarab Burson, the appellant, was first married to John Walton. After bis death she intermarried with Levi Burson. The second marriage was contracted before the passage of the Act 11th April, 1848, to secure the rights of married women. Under proceedings in partition the estate of her first husband was valued, and one-third of the valuation was directed to remain charged thereon during her natural life, the interest thereof to be paid to her annually. This annuity, amounting to several hundred dollars, was received by her second…
1Opinion of the Court
*167The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Black, C. J.
Mrs. Burson, the present appellant, who was a married woman and had a husband in full life, petitioned the Court of Common Pleas for the appointment of a trustee to take charge of her separate property, agreeably to the 11th section of the act of 25th April, 1850. The property to which she was entitled is mentioned in the petition;' but it is not stated when she became the owner of it. The fact now seems to be that it accrued to her before the act of 1848, relative to married women, was passed, and that she was then married to her present…
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