1 N.E. 671 | NY | 1885
The claim of the appellant to appropriate the value of the plaintiff's dower-right to the payment of his judgment *204
against Henry Ropke is without a shadow of equity and should not be permitted to prevail upon any technical or narrow view of the principles of law applicable to this case. She must stand upon precisely the same equities which she would have if, instead of assigning or releasing her dower interest, she had conveyed land and taken the mortgage for the purchase-money thereof; and in that event it is well settled that her mortgage would have been a paramount lien to the appellant's judgment. (Jackson v.Austin, 15 Johns. 477; Haywood v. Nooney, 3 Barb. 643;Watson v. McKenny, 3 Wend. 233; Van Vleet v. Slauson, 45 Barb. 317; Flagg v. Munger,
The judgment should be affirmed, with costs.
All concur.
Judgment affirmed.