Court Opinion

ID: 6952620
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 01:33:56.806773+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:08:08.015407
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Breese, Ch. J.: I did not concur in the decision of Cole v. Van Riper, in which it is held a wife cannot convey her land without the assent of her husband, he being entitled to a life estate therein, and may become a tenant by the curtesy. Having such rights, it seems to me clear, a woman owning land, who in contemplation of marriage conveys it away, does so in fraud of the marital rights of her intended husband, and the conveyance is void. 1 Bright’s Husband and Wife, 221-222. This decision is, it seems to me, a necessary sequence of the case of Cole v. Van Riper.