25 Mich. 347
Decided July 13, 1872
Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1872-07-13
Appeal in Chancery from Ionia Circuit. This was a bill filed by Jane Fisher, to quiet title to the lands described therein.
Key passage — most relied on by later courts
““That there was nothing in the provisions of our Constitution and statutes relating to the rights of married women which would convert such estate into- a tenancy in common.””
quoted by 1 later decision, including In re the Appeal of Lewis
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Decided 1872-07-13
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably Bertles v. . Nunan (1883), Pray v. Stebbins (1886)
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
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¶1held, that the complainant and her husband did not take as tenants in common; that on the death of her husband the whole title inured to the complainant, and that there was nothing in the provisions of our constitution and statutes relating to the rights of married women, which would convert such estate into a tenancy in common.
¶2Decree below affirmed, with costs.