Case ID: nh_49/html/0264-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Smith, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Swett v. Swett.
    The decree of the supreme court in a divorce case, assigning to the'wife part of the. real estate of her husband, effectively vests the title to such portion of the real estate in the wife, without any conveyance from the husband.
    Petition for partition  by Susan E. Swett against Timothy E. Swett.
    
      Shirley, for petitioner.
    
      Barnard & Sanborn, for petitionee.
   Smith, J.

The petitioner’s title is founded on a decree in a divorce suit, whereby this court assigned to her ‘ ‘ one undivided half” of the real estate of which she now seeks to have partition. The petitionee objects that, as no order was made for the libellee to convey said real estate to the libellant, she has not such a title as will sustain this petition. We are of opinion that the law was correctly stated by Bell, J., in Whittier v. Whittier, 31 N. H., 452, p. 458-9 ; the undivided interest in the real estate vested in the wife, “by the mere force of the decree,” “ as effectually as the same could be done by any conveyance of the husband himself.”

Objections overruled.