Harrison v. Harrison
Supreme Court of Alabama
ERROR, to the Court of Probate of Dallas. I. The court below erred in admitting as evidence the Alabama divorce and proceedings connected with it. 1. Harriet Harrison is .not Harriet F. Harrison. — See Poyin-ter on M. & D., 10, (Note F;) 2 Ecc. R. 121. 2. The insertion of the letter “Y” was fraudulent; the notice was by publication. Defendant could not answer hill by that name.
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ERROR, to the Court of Probate of Dallas. I. The court below erred in admitting as evidence the Alabama divorce and proceedings connected with it. 1. Harriet Harrison is .not Harriet F. Harrison. — See Poyin-ter on M. & D., 10, (Note F;) 2 Ecc. R. 121. 2. The insertion of the letter “Y” was fraudulent; the notice was by publication. Defendant could not answer hill by that name. It enabled complainant to withhold the proceedings of the Chancery Court of South Carolina, and to get a decree a vinculo without a division of the estate. — See Clay’s Dig. 170, § 8; Poynter on M. & D., 11, Note. II.…
1Opinion of the CourtDargan, C. J.
This was an application to the Court of Probate of Dallas, by Harriet Harrison, claiming to be the widow of Kirkland Harrison, deceased, and praying that dower might be allotted to her of the lands of the decedent. The application was dismissed, and the cause is brought before this court by writ of error.
*505The facts which give rise to the questions of law for our revision, are these: I-n-1828/Kirkland Harrison, the decedent, intermarried with Harriet Ellison, the plaintiff in error, in the State of South Carolina, where both the parties then resided and ■ continued' to reside until the year…
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