United States v. Certain Parcels of Land in City of Annapolis

CHESNUT, District Judge.

In this federal land condemnation case the question presently arising is whether a wife is entitled to compensation, out of the damages awarded for the taking of her husband’s real estate, for destruction of her inchoate right of dower therein.

Although the existence of this question has been implicit in very many of the recent condemnation cases in this court, it has never heretofore been presented for decision because the uniform prior practice has been, in distributing the damages awarded for the taking of the husband’s land, and deposited in court by the Government,…