81 Ky. 443 | Ky. Ct. App. | 1883
delivered the opinion op the court.
Porter and wife conveyed a lot of ground in the city of Covington, for the consideration of $624.25, to Alexander
James and wife executed a conveyance to Chambers, properly acknowledged, in June, 1862, but the deed was not recorded until the year 1880, eighteen years after its execution and delivery, and after the death of James, the grantor. After the death of James, which occurred in the year 1879, his widow, the present appellee, instituted this action for dower, based upon the failure to have the deed recorded within eight months. It was not recorded until after the fight of the wife to dower had attached, and not until eighteen years from its execution and transfer.
We will not stop to inquire as to the effect of chapter 24, section 22, General Statutes, authorizing deeds to be effectual from the time they are recorded, although they may not have been recorded within the time provided by law. If regarded as a curative statute, it should not apply to a conveyance executed eighteen years before it is recorded, and not then until after the death of the grantor and the right to dower becomes vested in the widow.
The consideration paid by Chambers was $160 in money to James, and the assumption of the purchase money notes to the vendor of James, and these lien notes were afterwards paid by Chambers.
James never had any interest in this land that was not subject to the lien, and that the widow is not entitled to dower, as against a lien for the purchase money, is too well understood to require authority in support of it. That
In this case the chancellor proceeded against the objection of the appellants to ascertain the cash value of the property, and gave the dower in money, and then ordered a sale of
The 5 th section of article 4 of chapter 52, General Statutes (the same evidence, is found in the Revised Statutes), provides: ‘ ‘ The wife shall not be endowed of land sold but not conveyed by the husband before marriage, nor of land sold in good faith after marriage to satisfy a lien or incumbrance created before marriage, or created by deed in which she joined, or to satisfy a lien for the purchase money; but if there is a surplus of the land or proceeds of sale after satisfying the lien, she shall have dower or compensation out of such surplus, unless the surplus proceeds of sale were received or disposed of by the husband in his lifetime.” The statute makes no distinction between sales by the chancellor to satisfy the lien and sales by the owner. Here the sale was made to satisfy the liens by the husband of the appellee, and what was left, after discharging the liens, he
Judgment reversed and cause remanded, with directions to dismiss the petition. It is objected that the assignment of error is insufficient. The objection is to the judgments on pages 53 and 55 of the record, that the court erred in rendering them. This brings up the question as to whether, on the facts, the appellee is entitled to recover.