Hill v. Boland
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. (Dawkins, J.) The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtStockbridge, J.
Can a married woman by contract or deed relinquish her right of dower, so that real estate belonging to her husband can be conveyed by him without her joinder in the deed? That is the sole question which is presented by the record in this case.
The question is raised by a bill for the specific enforcement of a contract of sale of a ground rent of $42 claimed by Mr. Boland to be held by him free from any right whatever of his wife, Margaret A. Boland, to dower therein.
Mr. and Mrs. Boland had not for sometime been living together on the best of terms; and on the 1st February, 1912, they entered…
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