Wicker v. Durr

Citations

• 225 Pa. 305
• 74 A. 64
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 653

Syllabus

<p>Husband and wife — Deed by wife to husband — Nonjoinder of husband.</p> <p>1. A married woman cannot make a valid conveyance of her separate real estate by deed to her husband as grantee, which she alone signs, seals and acknowledges but which he accepts and places upon record.</p> <p>2. Neither the Act of April 11,1848, P. L. 536, nor the Act of June 8, 1893, P. L. 344, changed the provisions of the Act of February 24,1770, 1 Sm. L. 307, requiring a husband to join in the conveyance of a wife’s real estate.</p>