Newhall v. Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity by John M. Newhall and Maria B. Newhall his wife, against the Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank, William F. Lawrence and Edward M. Farnsworth, praying that the bank might pay over to Mrs. Newhall part of a fund in its hands.
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Bill in equity by John M. Newhall and Maria B. Newhall his wife, against the Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank, William F. Lawrence and Edward M. Farnsworth, praying that the bank might pay over to Mrs. Newhall part of a fund in its hands. The case was heard on bill and answers, before Colt, and by him reserved for the determination of the full court, as follows: John B. Nichols, being seised in fee of an estate in Lynn, conveyed it to the Lynn Five Cents Savings Bank by a mortgage deed, containing a power of sale, “ which sale shall forever be a perpetual bar, both in law and equity, against the…
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
The wife’s inchoate right of dower in the-equity of
redemption in lands of which her husband becomes seised, subject to a mortgage valid against him, or in which she has released her right to dower, is recognized as a valuable interest in her. It is regarded as something more than a mere possibility, although it becomes consummate only when she survives her husband. Her husband cannot deprive her of it, but it is liable to be defeated by a foreclosure of the mortgage in his lifetime, or by her own voluntary act. Gen. Sts. c. 90, § 2; c. 107, § 38; and c. 140, § 44.
It has been held that this…
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