Case ID: mass_13/html/0418-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

*Mary Hildreth versus Thomas Jones and Another.
    Where a wife had joined with her husband in a mortgage, releasing her right of dower to the mortgagee, and, after the husband’s death, his administrator discharged the mortgage, she was held dowable; although the Judge of Probate, before such discharge, had allowed her a sum of money out of the personal estate in consideration of her having so released her dower.
    This was a writ of dower unde nihil habet; to which the tenants pleaded in bar, that William Hildreth, the demandant’s husband, bargained and sold the premises, in which dower is demanded, to one J. R., in fee simple and in mortgage, and the said Mary, in and by the same deed, for a valuable consideration, released to the said J. R. all her right and claim of dower in the said tenements, and thereby barred herself, &c. ; that she, after the death of her husband, represented to the Judge of Probate for this county the said fact of her being barred as aforesaid, and prayed the said judge, in consideration thereof, to grant and allow her a meet sum out of the personal estate of her said husband ; who thereupon decreed and allowed her one thousand dollars out of the said personal estate ; and that the administrator of the said estate afterwards discharged the mortgage.
    To this plea in bar the demandant demurred generally, and the tenants joined in demurrer.
   Per Curiam.

The plea is bad and insufficient