New York Court of Appeals April 19, 1887 (Witthaus v. . Schack)

Ruger, Ch. J.

This action was brought by the plaintiff as the widow of Rudolph A. Witthaus, to cancel and annul a deed of several parcels of land in the city of Bew York, so far as it affected her right of dower in the parcels lying below Eifty-ninth street, upon the ground that her signature thereto

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had been obtained by false and fraudulent representations of her husband.