France v. Connor
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF WYOMING. This was a petition for the assignment and setting off of dower in lands in the county of Carbon and Territory of Wyoming, filed April 1, 1889, in' the district court for that county,, and alleging that the plaintiff on February 7, 1887, intermarried with James France, then and until his death a 'resident and citizen of that county and Territory ; that he died August 21,1888, intestate, leaving the plaintiff his widow, and…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF WYOMING. This was a petition for the assignment and setting off of dower in lands in the county of Carbon and Territory of Wyoming, filed April 1, 1889, in' the district court for that county,, and alleging that the plaintiff on February 7, 1887, intermarried with James France, then and until his death a 'resident and citizen of that county and Territory ; that he died August 21,1888, intestate, leaving the plaintiff his widow, and having been seized, during the marriage, of an estate of inheritance in land situated in that county, and fully…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
By a statute of the Territory of Wyoming, passed December 10, 1869, and embodied in the subsequent codes of the Territory, “ Dower and the tenancy by the curtesy are abolished, and neither husband nor wife shall have any share in the estate of the other, save as herein provided.” Wyoming Stat.. 1869, c. 41, § 1; Compiled Laws of 1876, c. 42, §1; Bev. Stat. of 1887, § 2221.
The single question in this case is whether this provision ■ of the territorial statute has been annulled or superseded by section 18 of the act of Congress of March 3, 1887, c. 397, conferring and regulating the right of…
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