Hopkins v. Frey
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. On the 29th February 1840, the appellee filed her bill, alleging that she was the widow of John Frey, deceased.
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. On the 29th February 1840, the appellee filed her bill, alleging that she was the widow of John Frey, deceased. That the said John Frey was, during his life time, and during his marriage with the said E. F., seized, in fee simple, of divers messuages, land and tenements, lying in Cecil county aforesaid, viz, a tract or parcel of land called l‘Dixons Exchange,” one other tract called ilHillis Delight,” and one other tract called u HU lis Addition, ” which several tracts or parcels of land, were conveyed to the said John Frey and a certain Matthew Irvin, by a…
1Opinion of the CourtMagrtjder, J.
The defendant in error, is the widow of John Frey, who died in the year 1832, and she filed this bill, in order to obtain a decree, directing dower to be assigned to her, in several tracts of land, and also, an account of the rents and profits of the same. The Chancellor having decreed, that she is entitled to dower, and to rents and profits, from the death of her husband, an appeal has been prayed, by some of the defendants, and it being here insisted, that in regard to the lands claimed by them, the widow has no title to dower. This is a question to be disposed of, before the claim to rents…
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