Stockett v. Goodman
Court of Appeals of Maryland
, Appeal 'from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, in Equity.- In April, 1874, the appellee filed on the equity side of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County her bill of complaint, claiming that as administratrix of William R. Goodman she was entitled to the foreclosure of certain mortgages executed by the appellant during the life-time of the deceased. The bill alleged, first — that the appellant being indebted to Wm.
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, Appeal 'from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, in Equity.- In April, 1874, the appellee filed on the equity side of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County her bill of complaint, claiming that as administratrix of William R. Goodman she was entitled to the foreclosure of certain mortgages executed by the appellant during the life-time of the deceased. The bill alleged, first — that the appellant being indebted to Wm. R. Goodman in the sum of seven thousand dollars, in March, 1867, gave him a mortgage on certain real estate, to secure’ payment of the debt, (it being provided in…
1Opinion of the CourtBrent, J.
Most of the questions which have been presented in the argument in this case, are hot before us. They must be left for a decision when they properly arise, and when all the parties interested are in Court. Mrs. Stockett is not a *58party to these proceedings, and any view which we might now hold in relation to her right of' dower in the lands in question would be clearly obiter dictum, and not binding upon her. She has not united with her husband in the mortgages which he has made, and there is no reason or necessity that she should have been made a party in this cause. This Court'has sometimes,…
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