Lecompte v. Wash
Supreme Court of Missouri
ERROR to St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. POINTS. 1. Tho question of the sufficiency of the first additional plea does not arise ¡.a chis case; and, even if it did, the plea embraces a good de-fence. :3 ,3ac. Abr. 384; Rev. Code 1825, p. 384, sec. 7; do. p. 500, sec. 13 knd, by the Spanish laws, the v/idow forfeited her right to the aci¡. Litions made by the husband during marriage, by elopemeni and aduit.'cy.
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ERROR to St. Louis Court of Common Pleas. POINTS. 1. Tho question of the sufficiency of the first additional plea does not arise ¡.a chis case; and, even if it did, the plea embraces a good de-fence. :3 ,3ac. Abr. 384; Rev. Code 1825, p. 384, sec. 7; do. p. 500, sec. 13 knd, by the Spanish laws, the v/idow forfeited her right to the aci¡. Litions made by the husband during marriage, by elopemeni and aduit.'cy. See Dupondan’s opinion. 2. The montioa of Wash was rightly sustained, as the success of his co-defe ¡ >nt on the issue enures to his benefit. 3. Under the third error assigned, nothing…
1Opinion of the Court
Napto.t, J.,
delivered, the opinion of the court.
Hyacinth Lecompte, and his wife Cecile, filed their petition in the circuit court of St. Louis, for an assignment of dower to said Cecile, in the lands of her first husband, Antoine Bisette. The petition stated *548that the maiden name of the demandant was Cecile Compare; that in the year 1806, she married Antoine Bisette; that said Bisette was seized of an estate of inheritance in the undivided third part of a lot of ground near St. Louis, two and a half by forty arpens, in the Big Prairie, bounded by lands of the widow Dodier, and of the widow…
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