Case Name: GEORGE HOUSTON and wife vs. JAMES JAMISON'S Adm'r
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1845
Citations: 4 Harr. 330
Docket Number: 
Parties: GEORGE HOUSTON and wife vs. JAMES JAMISON’S Adm’r.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 330–330

Head Matter:
GEORGE HOUSTON and wife vs. JAMES JAMISON’S Adm’r.
•Interest may be recovered on arrears 'of an annuity -given in lieu of dower, though there be a power -of distress.
'This was an action of debt on a deed securing an annuity to Mrs. Houston in lieu of dower, to recover the arrears, ¡and interest. The deed contained a clause of distress.
The question was whether the plaintiff could recover interest on the arrears of an annnity which was granted in lieu of dower, and Beeson’s Ex’r., vs. Beeson’s Jldm’rs. 1 Harr. Rep. 106, and Waples vs. Waples, Ibid 392, (n.) were cited.
W. H. Rogers, for plaintiff.
Gray, for defendant.
Mr. Gray
submitted that although interest might be recovered in the cases cited, where the party had no right of distress, ’he. should not recover interest where he bad that remedy; in analogy to the decisions which have been made refusing interest in the action of replevin on a distress for rent arrear.

Opinion:
But the Court said, the only reason why the general principle allowing interest as it is adopted in this country, had not been applied to the case referred to, was from the peculiar language, of the act-of assembly. (Dig. 364.)
Verdict for arrears and interest.