Hand v. Hand

I dissent. Determination of an adverse claim made by the defendant to the parcels of land described in the complaint in this case was the object of the action.

The adverse title asserted by the defendant is one which he claims to have derived directly from the plaintiff herself.

The decision of the court below informs us that the plaintiff is, and since the year 1855 has been, a married woman, the lawful wife of one William Nickels, to whom she was married in England, and with whom she there lived and cohabited until 1863, when, it appears, she voluntarily left her husband and England, and took…