Slatter v. Meek
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court at Mobile. Heard before the Hon. Wade Keyes. The bill in this case was filed on the 13th June, 1857, by Alex. B. Meek and Emma D., Ms wife, (formerly Emma I). Slatter,) against the administrator and heirs-at-law of Hope II.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court at Mobile. Heard before the Hon. Wade Keyes. The bill in this case was filed on the 13th June, 1857, by Alex. B. Meek and Emma D., Ms wife, (formerly Emma I). Slatter,) against the administrator and heirs-at-law of Hope II. Slatter, deceased, who was the former husband of Mrs. Meek; and sought to recover as mesne profits the rents of certain real estate, which had been assigned to Mrs. Meek as her dower interest in said estate, accruing between the death of said Slatter and the time when her dower was allotted. Slatter died, intestate, on the 15th September,…
1Opinion of the Court
R. W. WALKER, <7.
The privilege conferred upon the widow by section 1359 of the Code, to retain possession of the dwelling-house where her husband most usually resided next before his death, until her dower is assigned her, free from the payment of rent, does not attach to any premises except those whereof the wife is dowable. — Harrison v. Boyd, in MSS.; Vorlckner v. Hudson, 1 Sand. Sup. Ct. Rep. 215 ; Coke’s 2d Institute, vol. 1, p. 17. In this case, the husband had sold the dwelling-house in which he resided next before his death, some time prior to that event, andhis wife had joined in the…
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