Norwood v. Marrow
Supreme Court of North Carolina
The plaintiff filed her petition in the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions for the county of Granville, alleging that her late husband, William A. Norwood, had died sieved in fee simple of a certain tract of land, situate in the said county of Granville, and praying that she might have dower assigned in the same.
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The plaintiff filed her petition in the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions for the county of Granville, alleging that her late husband, William A. Norwood, had died sieved in fee simple of a certain tract of land, situate in the said county of Granville, and praying that she might have dower assigned in the same. To this petition, Alexander F. Marrow, the terre-tenant., and the heirs at law of the said William A. Norwood, were made parties’ defendants, of whom Marrow, the terre-tenant, alone answered. He denied the seisin of the husband at the time of his death, whereupon an issue tyas mude…
1Opinion of the Court
RufKiN, Chief Justice.
The issue, as joined in the record, is in the most general form that is admissible: Whether the late husband of the petitioner was at his death seized or possessed of the land in which the dower is claimed? But upon the trial, the defendant offered in evidence two deeds in particular, made by the husband, and insisted that one or the other of them transferred the fee and-^seisin from the husband; admitting at the same time, if that was not the effect of those deeds, that the plaintiff’s husband did die seized.
The Court held that one of those deeds, that-to Duty, was void…
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