Case ID: johns-cas_1/html/0030-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Palmer, widow, &c. demandant, against Horton, tenant.
    The wife of a person attainted, under the act of the 22d October, 1779, is .entitled to dower out of the estate of her husband, which has become forfeited.-
    In dower : Palmer, the late husband of the demandant, was attainted, in pursuance of the act of the legislature of this state, entitled, “ an act for the forfeiture and sale of the estates of persons, who have adhered to the enemies of this state,” passed the 22d October, 1779, and tiis estate was there- : by forfeited to the people, of this state. The demandant, in this case, claimed to be endowed of the premises in question, Which are a part of the real estate so forfeited.
    
      Ogden, for the defendant.
    
      Hoffman, for the tenant.
   The Court,

without hearing an argument, gave judgment for the demandant, and said they had frequently de[*28] cided, *in this court that the forfeiture of the estate of the husband, in pursuance of the act above mentioned, .did not forfeit the wife’s right of dower.

Judgment for demandant.