Mount v. Valle
Supreme Court of Missouri
Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. This was a petition filed by Eleanor Mount, in February, 1852, to recover dower in certain real estate in the city of St. Louis, of which her husband, Britton Mount, died seized in February, 1832. .The defendants claimed title under an administration sale, after the death of Mount, to pay debts due from the estate.
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Error to St. Louis Circuit Court. This was a petition filed by Eleanor Mount, in February, 1852, to recover dower in certain real estate in the city of St. Louis, of which her husband, Britton Mount, died seized in February, 1832. .The defendants claimed title under an administration sale, after the death of Mount, to pay debts due from the estate. On the 9th of August, 1833, Daniel Busby, administrator of Britton Mount, filed a petition praying for an order of sale of the real estate in controversy to pay debts. The petition stated that the proceeds arising from the sale of the personal…
1Opinion of the CourtGamble, Judge
The plaintiff, whose husband 'died in 1832, claims dower in property of her husband, which was sold by his administrator, under an order of the county court of St. Louis county, in 1832, to pay the debts of the intestate.
The defendants rely upon the sale, and upon the fact that the-widow settled with the administrator, and received her portion of the surplus- arising from the sale of the real estate, after paying the debts.
1. A widow was not entitled to dower under the code of 1825, which was in force at the time of the death of flie plaintiff’s husband, “until all just debts due or to be due…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Overton v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1853
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