Case ID: ohio-cc-dec_14/html/0110-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "GIFFEN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

DOWER.
    [Hamilton (1st) Circuit Court.]
    Swing, Giffen and Jelke, JJ.
    William Gildehaus et al. v. Fidelity Building & Savings Co. et al.
    L Dower Interest Subject to Subrogation Though assigned.
    Under Sec. 5464, Rev. Stat., the dower interest of the judgment debtor may be subjected to the payment of his debt, notwithstanding such interest has not been assigned.
    2. Error — Findings of Fact must be Made Part of Record in Order to Review.
    Findings of fact and conclusions of law, made in the court below, not made part of the record by journal entry or otherwise, cannot be considered on error.
    Heard on Error.
    Henry J. Harrop, for plaintiffs in error, cited:
    Boltz v. Stoltz, 41 Ohio St. 540; Whittaker Ohio Code, Sec. 5464; Weakly v. Hall, 13 Ohio St. 167,173 [42 Am. Dec. 194]; Follett v. Buyer, 4 Ohio St. 586, 592 ; Pittsburg, C. C. & St. L. Ry. v. Volkert, 58 Ohio St. 375, 376 [50 N. E. Rep. 924]; Stephen Pleading (8 Am. ed.), star page 64; Bouvier Law Die. (11 ed.) 343; Virginia, Carolina Ry. Co. v. Booker, 39 S. E. Rep. 591 [99 Va. 633]; Makley v. Whitmore, 61 Ohio St. 587 [56 N. E. Rep. 461]; 1 Am. & Eng. Ene. Law (2 ed.) 412, n. 2; Hard-wick v. King, 1 Stew. (Ala.) 812; Salmon v. Pixlee, 2 Day (Conn.) 242; Foster v. Trull, 12 Johns. (N. Y.) 456; Vedder v. Vedder, 1 Denio (N. Y.) 257; Boosey v. Wood, 3 H. & C. 484; Jones v. Jones, 8 Circ. Dec. 628 (15 R. 618).
    John Coffey, J. M. Dawson and E. M. Garrison, contra.
   GIFFEN, J.

The answer and cross-petition and supplemental answer and cross-petition of Henry Frese set up two judgments in favor of Frese and a right to subject tbe dower interest of the judgment debtor to the payment thereof. While it is true that he alleges in the supplemental answer and cross-petition that a levy had been made upon the dower interest, and the same sold in another action, yet he does not ask or seek to confirm that sale, but prays that the dower interest may be subjected to the payment of his debt under Sec. 5464, Rev. Stat. This may be done, although the dower has not yet been assigned. Boltz v. Stolz, 41 Ohio St. 540.

The other questions presented can be determined only by the facts in the case. The court at the request of plaintiff in error made separate findings of fact and conclusions of law, but the same were not made a part of the record by journal entry or otherwise, and, hence, cannot be considered.

Judgment affirmed.