Baker v. . Jordan .
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Case agbeed, heard before Clarke, J., at Spring Term, 1874, WilsoN Superior Coart. On the 10th day of September, 1872, the defendant, Catha-rine Baker, then Catharine Jordan, was seized in fee as tenant in common with one Eugene Jordan, of a lot in the town of Wilson, containing one acre, it being all the property owned by said Catharine.
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Case agbeed, heard before Clarke, J., at Spring Term, 1874, WilsoN Superior Coart. On the 10th day of September, 1872, the defendant, Catha-rine Baker, then Catharine Jordan, was seized in fee as tenant in common with one Eugene Jordan, of a lot in the town of Wilson, containing one acre, it being all the property owned by said Catharine. On the 11th day of December, 1872, the defendant .Cath-arine conveyed by deed, the consideration of which was love and affection, (as appears upon the face of said deed.) her interest in said lot to Mittie S. Jordan, wife of W, G. Jordan and step-mother of…
1Opinion of the CourtPeARsof, C. J.
The plaintiff marries a lady, whose only estate is a lot in the town of Wilson. In a short time he finds out that on the day before the marriage she had executed a deed of gift to her step-mother, conveying all of her interest in the lot. So instead of a bride with a fortune of $3,000 (the estimated value of the lot) he has a bride stripped of everything except her clothes.
Before 1868 this would have been declared to be “ a bare faced fraud ” upon his marital rights. But the new Constitution and the “ marriage act,” Bat Rev., chap. 69, make very great changes in respect to the rights of the…
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