McCosker v. Golden

The Surrogate.

The deceased died June 19,1849, intestate, leaving her husband surviving. Her sister, as one of the next of kin, now applies for letters of administration, on the ground that the Acts of 1848 and 1849, “ for the more effectual protection of the property of married women,” authorizing married women to take, hold, convey and devise, real and personal property, in the same maimer and with like effect, as if unmarried, have divested the husband of any interest in the estate of his wife after marriage, and also deprived him of the right to administer thereon.

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