Ferry v. Spokane, P. & S. Ry. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon; Charles E. Wolverton, Judge. Suit in equity by Evelyn P. Ferry against the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway Company and the Central Trust Company of New York. Decree for defendants, and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The appellant brought a suit to establish her alleged dower rights in certain real estate in the state of *118Oregon, the title to which had stood in the name of her former husband, but which he had sold and conveyed without her signature to the deeds. The court below sustained a motion to dismiss the bill.
[1] The appellant concedes that the bill shows that at the time of her husband’s death, and at the time of the conveyances she was a nonresident of the state of Oregon. A statute of the state in force since 1854 provides:
“A woman being an alien shall not on that account…
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