Oswald v. Hoover
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County, in Equity. John Hoover and the appellee, were married in February, 1855. Sometime in the year 1856, Jacob Krouse, the father of the appellee, died intestate, leaving real and personal estate.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County, in Equity. John Hoover and the appellee, were married in February, 1855. Sometime in the year 1856, Jacob Krouse, the father of the appellee, died intestate, leaving real and personal estate. The real estate was sold under a decree of the Circuit Court for Washington County, as a Court of Equity, passed on the 2nd of December, 1856, and the sale was ratified on the 3rd of March, 1857. The proceeds of this sale were distributed to tbe beirs of said Krouse, of whom the appellee was one. There was distributed to her by tbe auditor’s first…
1Opinion of the CourtStewart, J.
The appellee was married in February, 1855, to John Hoover..
Her father died intestate the following year, and his real estate was sold during the year, under decree for partition, and Hoover, the husband, received at sundry times, in right of his wife’s share of the proceeds, $2191.52, and we think the appellee’s claim to this amount, under the testimony in the cause, rests upon an equitable foundation, as will be more fully explained hereafter. But as to the amount received by the husband from the personal estate of her father, before the adoption of the Code, it must be governed by the law…
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