Ames v. Norman
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM WILSON. This bill was filed in the Chancery Court at Lebanon in April, 1855. The complainant, as the wife of one William Ames, seeks for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony, on the ground of cruel treatment from her said husband; she prays also that a tract of land described in the bill be decreed to her as her absolute estate. It' seems that the complainant and her husband held this land under a joint conveyance in fee to both, made after their marriage.
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FROM WILSON. This bill was filed in the Chancery Court at Lebanon in April, 1855. The complainant, as the wife of one William Ames, seeks for a divorce from the bonds of matrimony, on the ground of cruel treatment from her said husband; she prays also that a tract of land described in the bill be decreed to her as her absolute estate. It' seems that the complainant and her husband held this land under a joint conveyance in fee to both, made after their marriage. It was levied upon and sold to satisfy an execution against her husband, and was bought hy Alfred Hunt, from whom the defendant…
1Opinion of the Court
•McKinney, J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court.
*691This was a bill for a divorce, and likewise to have the title to a tract of land divested out of the defendant Norman and vested in the complainant. The Chancellor decreed for the complainant, both as against the husband and the defendant Norman. The former acquiesced in the decree of divorce, and the case is brought here by Norman, in whose behalf it is insisted that the decree divesting him of title to the tract of land in the pleadings mentioned is erroneous.
The facts upon which the question arises are these: On the 31st of January, 1835,…
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