Villone v. Villone

The question involved is: When a wife has joined in a deed of property of whieh she and her spouse are tenants by the entirety, and the husband has received the entire sales price, is the wife entitled to bring an equity action for an accounting of the proceeds?

The defendant claims that the Married Woman’s Acts, so called (now embodied in Dom. Rel. Law, art. 4, as amd.), have not abolished the common-law attribute of a tenancy by the entirety, which permitted the husband to take the entire proceeds of a sale, citing the case of Farmers & Mechanics’ National Bank of Rochester v. Gregory (49…