Case ID: ny-sup-ct_10/html/0412-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

EDWIN GROAT, Respondent, v. LUKE PHILLIPS, Appellant.
    
      Covenant by husband and wife—when wife not bound by.
    
    This action was brought on a covenant of seizin contained in a deed executed by both husband and wife, the covenant being in favor of both. The action was brought against the husband alone, the complaint alleging that the wife-joined only to release her dower. The defendant demurred, on the ground that his wife should have been made a party to the action. ’ Held, that the demurrer was properly overruled. The covenant did not bind the wife, as the property was not her separate estate; any presumption that it was such, being rebutted by the allegatious of the complaint.
    Appeal from an order overruling a demurrer.
    
      JR. JB. JFish, for the appellant.
    
      Z. 8. Westbrook, for the respondent.
   Opinion by Learned, P. J.

Present — Learned, P. J., Boabdman and James, JJ.

Order affirmed with ten dollars costs, with leave to defendant to answer within twenty days, upon payment of costs of motion below and of this appeal.