Case ID: ky-op_9/html/0642-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mary M. and A. B. Cox v. W. H. Chelf.
    Married Women — Conveyance of Real Estate.
    The statutes empowering a married woman to convey by joining her husband in a deed give her the right to convey whether founded on a valuable consideration or not.
    APPEAL PROM GREEN CIRCUIT COURT.
    October 30, 1877.
    
      William Howell, for appellants.
    
    
      W. H. Chelf, for appellee.
    
   Opinion by

Judge Pryor :

The general doctrine in regard to the conveyances of real estate by married women is that the statutes empowering a married woman to convey in conjunction with her husband give her the right to make a conveyance, whether founded on a valuable consideration or not. One may make a deed of gift, mortgage or release, and when executed as required by the statute she will be divested of her title as readily as if she had been a feme sole. Kennedy v. Ten Broeck, 11 Bush 241. The proof shows a compliance with the statute in’ taking the acknowledgment. There is no allegation of fraud or collusion, nor any evidence in the record sustaining such a charge if made. Judgment below affirmed.