Moore v. Richardson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
.On Facts agreed. Petition for Partition. The petitioner is a widow. Her father, many years since, died seized of the estate described in the petition, one eighth of which she was entitled to by inheritance, and which she now claims by her petition.
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.On Facts agreed. Petition for Partition. The petitioner is a widow. Her father, many years since, died seized of the estate described in the petition, one eighth of which she was entitled to by inheritance, and which she now claims by her petition. The petitioner, after her marriage, was shed by the respondents, for a debt she owed before, and judgment was recovered against her and her husband, in June, 1838. The execution issued thereon was satisfied by a levy on six-eighths of one seventh of th'e premises, describing it “ as the property of the within named William E. Moore and Agnes…
1Opinion of the CourtHathaway, J.
— The petitioner, the' widow of William Moore, prays partition of certain real estate of which her father, Andrew Mackie, died seized, and of which she claims one eighth as her inheritance. When the petitioner married William Moore she was in debt, and a suit was instituted against her and her husband, and prosecuted to final judgment, and execution thereon levied upon a portion of her inheritance, July 27, 1838, for satisfaction of her debt contracted before coverture. There is no question made between the parties, that if the levy was not effectual to transfer the estate levied upon, to the…
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- Fox v. HatchSupreme Court of Vermont · 1842
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