Rhodes v. Robie
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Hearing- on an appeal from orders of the court below-holding a special term for Orphans’ Court business in a proceeding for the settlement of the accounts of a guardian. The Court in is opinion stated the case as follows: These appeals are taken from two separate orders passed by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia holding a special term for Orphans’ Court business.
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Hearing- on an appeal from orders of the court below-holding a special term for Orphans’ Court business in a proceeding for the settlement of the accounts of a guardian. The Court in is opinion stated the case as follows: These appeals are taken from two separate orders passed by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia holding a special term for Orphans’ Court business. The first of these orders directs the vacation and restatement of a prior account stated by the guardian and approved by the court, and upon which distribution was declared to the several wards several years before the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Alvey
1. With respect to the first of these assigned errors, that of the right of the husband to curtesy in the land devised to his wife, there would seem to be no ground for serious question. It is contended on the part of the appellees that *316the husband never acquired an estate by the curtesy, because his wife was never actually seized of the land, and her title being incomplete, the right by the curtesy did not attach in the husband. But the principle of non-seisin of the wife has no application to this case. It is very true, there can be no curtesy of a remainder or reversion. There are, says…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Owens v. CollinsonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1830
- Gist's Adm'r. v. CockeyCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1826
- Alexander v. BryanSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Spedden v. State ex rel. MarshallCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1811
- Watkins v. BevansCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1854