Edge v. Barrow

After a final decree for the plaintiff upon a bill to remove a cloud from her title to land in Tyngsborough, the defendant appealed. At the hearing the facts were not in dispute. On July 1, 1920, Thomas H. Barrow, the father of the defendant, owning the land, granted it by a recorded deed “to Catherine S. Barrow, my wife, and to myself, to hold as tenants by the entirety and not as tenants in common.” Catherine S. Barrow therein released “to said grantees” all rights of dower and homestead. It is not suggested that the deed was not recorded during the lifetime of both spouses. Erickson v.…