{ "id": 11978755, "name": "Martha Whitehead vs. Clinch's heirs and executors", "name_abbreviation": "Whitehead v. Clinch's heirs", "decision_date": "1803-06", "docket_number": "", "first_page": "278", "last_page": "280", "citations": [ { "type": "nominative", "cite": "2 Hayw. 278" }, { "type": "official", "cite": "3 N.C. 278" } ], "court": { "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Super. Ct.", "id": 22358, "name": "North Carolina Superior Court" }, "jurisdiction": { "id": 5, "name_long": "North Carolina", "name": "N.C." }, "cites_to": [], "analysis": { "cardinality": 716, "char_count": 7020, "ocr_confidence": 0.212, "sha256": "32de706aa264ec716650f0bb6c88a98ef67c657b9b941f3b377a7d243739a751", "simhash": "1:0c0b7ae360f53fa2", "word_count": 1328 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T20:25:52.833864+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Martha Whitehead vs. Clinch\u2019s heirs and executors." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Is it to such ; rriilcr: l reasoning au this that the just claim of the widow is to be sacrificed? We laugh at it \u25a0wbnt j'i in or about rGi.v. was put into cr her dower C-fos by a she? iff sod jury, and Las ever since coti-sia.u-c h nosss.-sskso s C\u2019iacli died while this petition was ptnei-t-TIN b-ll is brought to compel bis heirs and executors to a -t lor the nttsne pro tils front the \u00bfcali, of Jacob Whi:--hr?-5\nCs.r.iistl for tbs defend?i\u2019V.\nFirst; without come cquitA:. cid unisone;.*, ss defender, to dcialring tide deeds, their loss, or i/h-rc a die.'-os cry hoes the defor.dar.t is necessary, courts will rot eruertuir; bills to account for mesne profit's, but will kav-j vtiOTM to tbeir remedy el law ; 2 Vera. 519. 3 A\u00edk. 34C. 1 Aik, >24. No such equitable circumstances exist in this caca, r.cr ,\u00bbre set forth in the bill. Secondly j this being a case which or;. .\u201e'r\u00bbs>ted before our acts of Afeeirnilj\u2019- had made any alterations in-che English common 8? statute W- respecting dower,.it rmistjbe decided entirely by the English law ; therefore, if the defendant 3 writ or petition for dower at law, dies, pending the snii, the druKrues are lest, sail judgment will be given for the dower-2 3-i-. AJ>. late edition, 3u4>, etpassim 592. \u2014 And though; th\u00ed\"c..;\u00a1e\u2018j n'o vesy numerous, -\u00abhen the plaintiff or de.fench.ai in a suit at l,i >v for damages fos died before its determination, it. !m -always been conceded that the damages, at law were lost, and orpiny heir never given relief. The cace iiom 2 Bro. C. Cha C-20 is entirely different i out the present \u2022 there die biU was. first bnught for dower and mesuo profits, io a court Os equity and rot, in a court of lav;. Thirdly : no naesao profits u-vi dh-. nv,;'r; were recoverable si common law in real actions of dov/er k one. on the raiste\u201d;de that they were necessasy to enable the taunt ir. possession io anrwer the ?r\u00abis of the iord.-^ \u2014 \u2022 Tb-* ou\u2019y 1 aw which altered this pri>; ip le as to writs of dower, it. \u00edh.- \u00a1.tamil- of Mania, 20 s L S ; and that only gives damages, er rn-nne profits win re the iu.iba.ad died seized of the land. Co. fo;' .53- \u00bf L. Ray. 1334, 2 33a. A b. Tide liowar passim. No i a..:- c-ik be produced, whose the widows. whose husbands did a jt Cas *t\u00ab3wr* \u00ed*r t,L.t\u2018 Janu of which ski proyvd \u00ed!ow?:*, \u2019\u2022\u00a1\u2022c'.ver -l sacase- profits, cccccot when they are revcm-t\u00bb .%\u00ab\u2022 m Jist very particular. \u00cd3 3 Bro. \u00a3h. C. \u00a304, no cArr-ages c. pr^yvj\u00ed agaiast a parthae*? ja the haaban\u00e1\u2019\u00bb life t\u00edme. \u00bfuubtin,. 3V, n b:il in every osi\u00ed,:cali? like the presen?, was reveist;.l by dies whole court.\nCorar ftl \u00edcr the pic-fads\u2019.\nJLn to tbs remec\u00ed y, 2. Yctaon SiS\u201e 3 Atfco 810, 1 Atk. 534, relate to r\u00e1eme proiis ia eo\u00fcuaoa caser-s of \u2022.'j.jc\u00ediaen\u00ed', there equity will not It-aerpcrje unless the case fa. Wte oh equity which the pm\u00edy csrool nu>kc available stkti. Food. 12. it Is sevurthekes tree that clotru- sod aur-oro .-dower s.re pectiSfatly subject of equity \u00bf\u00abviadicfan, w\u2019ubf-ci, au/ Alegad 3*1 ;\u25a0\u00a3 equitable ciu-cu\u00ed\u00edf*;U:LC<.-:-. X For.b. 1\u00bf\u2018f, fj Vi.c. fa: , 123. Motfoed, 109. 1. Ves. 262. As to the tight, v-\u00ed cosii-:1.' sot for a legal one ; fat is he admitted \u00edh\".c iLrac.yoi ore gom ; .lew by She death of the deforceor, \u00bf-.id with cbm i he kval right-. The right ia couesienee remains, and c-qfaty vril recograce it,:\u25a0 - noil as in the fonder case. Where\";-*- the law is slLw.c L therefore inadequaie to the attahuueut of justice, sm\u00faly will ir-oc-rpcse. 1 Foab. 20. Why will equity usbjeci \u00edfc\u00bf cj-veuior (.:: tin executor to a dnasiar-il committed by the Isj-bi ero cu tur? 3 At!:. \u2018\u00a137, Because the law is defective in rendering justice Uj the party. Why will equity subject i be nipreaepicrivts of a \u00bffa-\u00edwu\u00e1aa\u00ed, deforceor or waster, or decree io.* the eciweccntsumg c\u00ed o (fa A plasat'nT? Because law is iaecfaqaie. 'Way give com pousatir.u to the widow, for the detention of be;,- cower, although sfcs has act demanded it ? 2 Fro. Ch. 682. Because it is fast, sad the law has net provided Sorb. Why give account for w:.-2\u00a3se profits when the pfai\u00edui\u00fc: fa.'. ncc uttered? Because \u00a1.ho low will not. 3. Alb. 226. it were enditas \u00a1-r\u00bb cite cases which are the \u00a1feveit of \u00edi\u00e1s principle. I? ocir cuvaafas to asi: if she be sr\u00abit ia cucissiesice entitled ? She fa etui Ad it*;* the satne ro:is\u00a1 \u25a0-., .vid \u00abpon. the same grounds, that a iH.-jiatsi? 1\u00bb In cojaenon cane., of ejecw.c;\"1:; hecaute he has recovered t\u00edsat which Aloagud c ., far, The case cited iVom Buafary, A, c-c.-'-Y: i.ca to Le r-AA: ppou ; it it a chert, ioobe notf, CF.r--lessiy '--h. ijoirt dev, :\u2022\u00ab. :-i*r eis'cwBsianees or argumest\u00edi, s*nd b-, cr-ron7y \u00abmeorrect l-.i po-are p\u00edticular\u00bb, and therefore there is reason to drubs it In Th Is is certainly incorrect in aayinfr tse widow errsue r nave r.wrsn yrofits but from the time of \u00bb!:\u2022- dentad, v.i--.-, C. CK6:A It. is ai so incorrect in sayinsq that as she ha* \u2019-U\" and js pi/csc.sa'.O'.-i, she mav recover the mesar orr-\u00edus. \u00f1r\u00ab-, Uar\u00ediay-fc:, in dower are accessorii! and an sop tr.d.ige of the princip; i j Jjgraeni\u2019, like damages in debt, and cant\u00edos b\u201c recovered in a. E\u00ed\u00edqjeiate action. Co. Litt 33. Wo iastanc--. cun be adduced of ? recovciy of damages in a sepa, use : h he cine theu incoaoet i.i these points,- the re*..A. \u2014w \u2022e\u2019x? \u00ab\u25a0 equally so, lor tUmagre or mesne profits are tv cover?ble in eqooty, though thtj husband did not div seised. 5 i.vii, 403. ?. E. C Ah. 388. it is mor s\u00ed\u00edcu. to say to a disoiue-rr, resist'the just claim of the widow as long as you can, ami irk-' the pro\u00f1-s which belong to k~.'} neither hw nor equity w\u00ed\u2018,1 tnr.be you refund them. It d\u00fao be k,AT ?nd equity, it is not very good sense 5 common sense v\u2019hy, the profits equally beiony to her, bum toe death of the li \u2022 1. baud, whether he did not or did die seis.-d, audit is equally a wrong to her to take them iron l-er. Sp/vas of jurisprudence are systems of principies, nc . of cases, anti we oLc\u00eduld try cases by taenu \u00a9?\u00ab horet in l'tern., hout in artice. SY\u00edr.ciplo \u00edj the magnetic needle which conducts to i!.-, diccovery of L-1 rae forget the temerity of a ncctlisg, and guided by principle gear npon \u2022 the wings of the eagle. Why l?r the t'cfoice&r I:v.v> the profits, when the husbacd did not die seV.-d ? Because, say they, these are to answer the demands of the lord. And, I say, when there is no lord, let the poor widow have them rJL he deforceor ought not to return them, to answer demands which cannot h. made." }, "file_name": "0278-01", "first_page_order": 282, "last_page_order": 284 }