Leavitt v. Tasker
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Petition for partition brought in the Supreme Judicial Court, Waldo County. The petition is as follows: "To the Honorable Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court next to ’'eld at Belfast, for the County of Waldo, on the third Tuesday Ójl :il next:— ", spectfully represents Marietta Leavitt, of Dixmont, in the County of Penobscot, that she is seized in fee simple and as tenant in common of and in certain real estate situated in Monroe in said County of Waldo, to wit:…
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On report. Petition for partition brought in the Supreme Judicial Court, Waldo County. The petition is as follows: "To the Honorable Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court next to ’'eld at Belfast, for the County of Waldo, on the third Tuesday Ójl :il next:— ", spectfully represents Marietta Leavitt, of Dixmont, in the County of Penobscot, that she is seized in fee simple and as tenant in common of and in certain real estate situated in Monroe in said County of Waldo, to wit: (Description omitted in this report); also a certain parcel of land situated in Jackson, in said County of Waldo, being…
1Opinion of the CourtKing, J.
Proceedings for partition of real estate. The case is before this court on report.
On September 3, 1903, John F. Tasker, then the husband of the petitioner, conveyed to the defendant, by warrantee deed, the real estate described in the petition. The plaintiff did not join in that conveyance, and has not since barred her right of dower or interest by descent in the premises. October 31, 1908, a divorce was decreed to the plaintiff against John F. Tasker for his desertion of her.
As such divorced wife she claims to be the owner in fee of an undivided third of said real estate by virtue of the…
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