Chapman v. Chapman's Trustee
Supreme Court of Virginia
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Madison county, pronounced September 20,1892, in a suit in chancery wherein appellant was the complainant, and the appellees were the defendants. This was a suit in chancery brought by the complainant to recover her dower in the lands whereof her husband, Thomas W. Chapman, was seised and possessed during the coverture, and, amongst others, in the tract of 560 acres referred to in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHarrison, J.
It appears from the record that in 1870 Thomas W. Chap*538man, then unmarried, made a verbal contract with Thomas A. Chapman, by which he sold the latter a tract of 560 acres of land. The purchaser paid in cash $100.00, and was immediately put in possession.
Thomas W. Chapman, the vendor, married in 1878, without having made his vendee a deed. After his marriage he executed and delivered to Thomas A. Chapman a deed conveying him this 560 acres of land. In this conveyance his wife refused to unite. Thomas W. Chapman, the vendor having died, since making the deed, his widow now demands dower in the…
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