Hubbard v. Hubbard
Supreme Court of Vermont
Arpead in Chancery. Heard on petition, answer, master’s report and exceptions thereto, at the December Term, 1903, Addison County, Tyler, Chancellor. Decree for the petitioner. The petitionee appealed. The opinion fully states the case. The Legislature could not enact a law sustaining V. S, 2646 in favor of one person and not in favor of another, Holden v. James, 11 Mass. 397; King v. Tennessee, 3 L. R, A. 2103 Tillman v. Cook, 9 Baxter (Tenn.) 429; Cooley on Const.
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Arpead in Chancery. Heard on petition, answer, master’s report and exceptions thereto, at the December Term, 1903, Addison County, Tyler, Chancellor. Decree for the petitioner. The petitionee appealed. The opinion fully states the case. The Legislature could not enact a law sustaining V. S, 2646 in favor of one person and not in favor of another, Holden v. James, 11 Mass. 397; King v. Tennessee, 3 L. R, A. 2103 Tillman v. Cook, 9 Baxter (Tenn.) 429; Cooley on Const. Lim. 558; Lewis v. Webb, 3 Me. 326. The discretion to regulate property rights between husband and wife is a legislative…
1Opinion of the CourtStaRROrd-, J.
The question is whether No. 49 of the Acts, of 1896 is constitutional. It provides that “the court of chancery, in its discretion, upon the petition of a married woman, may empower her to convey her real estate by separate deed” as effectually as if the deed were executed by herself and her husband.
In the present case the petition set forth the marriage of the petitioner to the petitionee, that the petitioner was then the owner in fee simple of a piece of land described, that *75since her marriage she had bargained the land to a party-named and needed the proceeds for her support and to> meet…
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