Ferguson v. Gentry
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Pettis Circuit Court. — Hon. George F. Longam, Judge. (1) The Act of March 2,1895 (Laws 1895, p. 169) now section 2938, Revised Statutes 1899, is void, because the title does not express the subject of the act. Const., art. 4, see. 28. The act purports to be an amendment of the law concerning “Dower.”
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Appeal from Pettis Circuit Court. — Hon. George F. Longam, Judge. (1) The Act of March 2,1895 (Laws 1895, p. 169) now section 2938, Revised Statutes 1899, is void, because the title does not express the subject of the act. Const., art. 4, see. 28. The act purports to be an amendment of the law concerning “Dower.” The legislation in question had no possible connection with or relation to “dower” as it had previously bepn understood,' whether we take the term in its plain and ordinary and usual sense, or whether we consider it as a technical word and construe it according to- its technical…
1Opinion of the CourtValliant, P. J.
This is an appeal from a decree in partition of certain real estate in Pettis county.
The petition states that Reuben J. Gentry died in 1881, seized in fee of the land in question, leaving a widow and five children, one of whom was Ruby G. Gentry, who in 1892 married the plaintiff Ferguson and died in 1900 intestate without having had issue and leaving as her heirs at law her mother, a sister and three brothers, who are the defendants. The widow’s dower has been admeasured and set off to her. The petition asserts that by virtue of an act of the General Assembly approved March 2, 1895-,…
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