44 Barb. 232 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1865
The plaintiff, as widow of Andrew McGowan, was clearly entitled to dower in the premises in question, unless she is cut off by the foreclosure of the mortgage executed by McGowan to Charles and Thomas Brady. McGowan was seised of the premises in his" lifetime, and went into possession and occupied the same for some time. The plaintiff not having been made a party to the suit for the foreclosure of said mortgage is clearly not cut off from her dower in said land unless the mortgage is to be deemed a mortgage given for the purchase money, under the statute, which (§ 5, ch. 1, part 2, of the revised statutes) is as follows: “ When a husband shall purchase land during coverture and shall at -¿he same time mortgage his estate in such lands to secure the payment of the purchase money, his widow shall not be entitled to dower out of such lands, as against the mortgagee, or those claiming under him, although she shall not have united in such mortgage; but she shall be entitled to dower as against all other persons.” The mortgage under which the defendant holds title
Johnson, James 0. Smith and Ü?. Danoin Smith, Justices.]