146 Va. 109 | Va. | 1926
delivered the opinion of the court.
The facts of the ease, so far as they need be stated,, are as follows:
“James Robert Cole and Armenia E. Cole were
The question involved is whether or not a husband who. has obtained a divorce a vinculo from his wife is entitled to curtesy as tenant by curtesy in land owned by bis wife at the time of the divorce, where the decree says nothing as to the property rights of the parties. The judge of the trial court decided that the husband had no rights in the property of the wife.
The decision of the trial court is in conformity with the holding in the cases just cited, and is plainly right. The right of the husband as tenant by marital right and tenant by curtesy initiate have been taken away by the married woman’s act (Code, section 5134), and no right by curtesy consummate could there
The appeal is therefore refused.
Refused.