Case ID: njl_10/html/0071-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Oil. Justice", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In Matter of Elizabeth Stevenson.
    Where a portion of money arising from the sale of lands, in which the widow has a right of dower, is put out by commissioners on bond, according jo the statute, Revised Laws 599, see. 8, the bond should he taken in the name of the commissioners, and not of the widow.
    
      Armstrong applied to the court to know in whose name the bond, which was to be taken to secure the widow’s share of property which had been sold under the statute, Revised Laws, 599, see. 8, should be taken.
   Oil. Justice

said that the bond must be made to the commissioners, and not to the widow herself.