Cawfield v. Owens.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
ActioN by Sarah Cawfield against Amos Owens and May Owens, heard by Judge M. H. Justice and a jury, at September.. Term, 1901, of the Superior Court of Ruthekfoed County. Erom a judgment for the plaintiff, the defendant Mary Owens appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtClaRK, J.
A deed, made in 1854 but improperly probated, was ruled out. Thereupon, it was immediately re-probated in proper form, and was then introduced in evidence. There is no valid objection to. this-.
The grantee in said deed executed a mortgage in 1881 without joinder of his wife. The property having been •acquired in 1854, and it appearing from her answer, averring that the land was-bought by her husband with her sepa rate property, that sbe was then, married, the joinder of the wife was. not necessary to bar either dower or homestead. Askew v. Sutton, 66 N. C., 172; Shaffer v. Bledsoe, 117 N. C.,…
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