Muller v. Thomann

The bill is to recover dower in a property in Union Hill, Hudson county, conveyed by the complainant's late husband, Ernest Muller, to the defendant Thomann, in 1920. The deed was signed by one Katherine Thomser Muller as wife of Ernest. The defendant, the Trust Company of New Jersey, holds a mortgage on the property given by Thomann to raise the purchase money.

Ernest and the complainant were married in 1896 and lived in Brooklyn ten years, when he abandoned her and their six children, eloping with Katherine, a shop girl in his bakery. The two came to Newark, stayed for nine months, then…