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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 11, 1922 
ions 
fairly as you <lo. Most people set forth, 
the favorable facts and conceal the un¬ 
favorable conditions. We believe that if 
your tenant desires fa move from your 
farm, under all llio conditions, it 'would 
be fruitless for you to attempt to collect 
rent for the balance of the year. N. t. 
Interest in Property 
IIow docs the law apply to the follow¬ 
ing case? About 10 years ago a man in 
onr town married a widow with one 
daughter about six years of age, who 
owns a house and lot which they have 
been renting out yearly ever since, using 
the rent money for their personal pleas¬ 
ures. After marrying the man bought a 
farm for about $5,000, paying down ns 
Security and first payment $2,000, the 
woman promising to pay in $$00 of her 
own money, which she never did. but in¬ 
stead paid in only $400. The man gave 
her a joint deed of the place (in view of 
her promise ) and gave a mortgage of 
$2,000 as first mortgage and a second 
mortgage of about $1,000. After one year 
the man, from his personal money which 
he had earned and saved before marriage, 
paid the second mortgage of $1,000 with 
accrued interest, also ail other transfer 
charges, taxes, insurance and other inci¬ 
dental expenses caused at the time, and 
after a few years he also bought, the first 
mortgage of $2,000 with money he bad 
before marriage, and now holds the $2,000 
mortgage against his own place on which 
he gave the wife.n joint deed at the time 
they bought the place. They ever since 
have lived on 1':e place and farm and 
have a joint bank account from what has 
been accumulated and saved since'buying 
the farm. fn>m crops grown thereon. The 
wife is doing her share of work in help¬ 
ing when necessary outdoors. What part 
of the property can the wife claim now, 
by law, also in case the man dies first 
and leaves no will? What, part does the 
widow get, and who gets the balance, if 
any? They haw no children except, the eltlior of the mind or body, comes 
i>ne daughter the wife had before marry- (n ono j ( ftcr marriage thnt then the duties 
mg this second husband. < mild the him- of wiff . or j ms b U nd should be greater 
band will ins on ire real and personal rat)l( . t . ,iian less. The States which do 
property to whom ho wishes and as he permit a divorce on the grounds of in- 
desires? Would the wife’s entire property eanUy recognize this, for they provide 
go to the daughter in case the wife dies thnt the insanity must have existed for 
fast. How if the husband dies first . ^ ] rtn g a time that there is no possibility 
Ilow long must the husband support and G f recovery. N. t. 
duento the daughter, who is now nttpnd- 
rig high school? Is tlie husband obliged - 
to pay the daughter for work she does at ns«~..i*w n 
home, such as picking berries, cherries, Difficulty Over Sale of Farm 
asparagus, etc., besides the daughter hav- On April 1, 1910. I sold my farm in 
ing nil the house rent from her place to the State of Connecticut for $2,000. The 
use. wlceh place is in her name, willed to local bank held a mortgage on the farm 
her by her father? it. c. s. for $1,000, that was left to remain as it 
New York. was. The buyer paid down $500, and I 
took a second mortgage of $900 in the 
At the death of the husband the real form of a note due three years from date, 
property will all pass to the wife, and if with interest at 0 per cent. In 1917 I 
bank an,i» tqmriM ao .hat -“*g* »£» ‘To 
cither or survivor could draw, this, too, bought; the farm in 1919 says that 1 gave 
would go to the wife, whether there was him a deed to cover all this laud. There 
a will or not. The balance of the per- was nothing 88id in the deed about it 
, . ... whatever. Tie lias kept up the interest 
Renal property, if there was no will, on ,|„. jjsnoO note to date. What can he 
would ail go to the widow, provided there do about it. and what can 1 do about it? 
was no descendant, parent, brother or Wlmt can T do if he refuses to pay the 
... $990 note on April 1, 1922? II. II. G. 
sister, nephew or niece, hut. if there was ' Pennsylvania. 
a brother or sister, nephew or niece, the , ,, 
., , .... , , „ , .. « Tt is unfortunate that you have sold 
widow would be entitled to one-half of tbp IJPopprty in qUPHtion without except- 
thc surplus, and to the whole of the resi- j,ig the acre <>f land which you had sold 
due if it. does not exceed $2,000; if that previously. You have apparently given 
"*'«■« «. 
eeive $2,000 in addition to one-half. I he possession of all the property. You can 
husband may will all of his real and per- bring an action on your note when the 
sonal property that is not joint property note becomes due. and if he feels so in- 
, ' ; . al ... , clincd. he can counter-claim for Ihc dif- 
to whom he desires; the widow will have fpm) \. e jn value 0 f t he land which you 
a dower interest, however, in such real conveyed to him and that which he ac- 
property. The wife’s daughter is reeeiv- tualty received. N. T. 
ing a home; the husband is not obliged to 
pay her for work which she does about 
the home, the* presumption being that 
the furnishing of the home is just coni- 
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Punishing School Children 
Wlmt if 4 tli' 1 id"’ on keeping school chil¬ 
dren in during flic noon hour and has 
the teacher n right to keep a child that 
gets out. ut 8:30 until five or half past? 
Also can they compel a child to write 
every word he misses 500 times even 
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1 think 10t> times is enough punishment. 
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There is no State law in Massachusetts 
which governs the matter of keeping 
children after school or at noon. This 
is very poor policy if done habitually, for 
any length of time, and the inquirer's 
remedy would be to appeal to the super¬ 
intendent of schools and if not sustained 
by him, to the school board. Most su¬ 
perintendents will instruct teachers not 
to keep their pupils for more than tin 
hour, for in the end no good is accom¬ 
plished, as the children become accus¬ 
tomed to the longer hours and no correc¬ 
tion results. 
The matter of punishing the child bv 
compelling him to write tl.e same word 
500 tiipes is a matter of the teacher’s 
discipline. Tt. would seem that the 
teacher who inflict* tin’s sort of punish¬ 
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arian, and perhaps ihut matter, too, will 
lie taken up with the superintendent. The 
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Tenant Leaving Before End of Year 
I have rented my farm to a man and 
s wife for one year. He paid me six 
onths* rent in advance and was to pay 
e other six months in advance October 
1921. We have no written agreement 
kind, and he 1ms no receipt for his 
My house is in bad repair, and I 
reed to make needed repairs to the 
d raise the house, as it is 
t. at the floors in tlie kitchen 
5 inches from main house. 
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himself, which he accepted, but did not 
put them on, He says the roof leaks so 
bruit v il would Mpoll iho first ruin, min I 
have! not fixed the floors either. My line 
fences were poor. 1 bought some wire 
and lie fixed as fat- ns it went, and asked 
f.n- more, but 1 could not afford to get it 
for him. so he took down cross fences 
that were poor and put the ports and wire 
on line fence to keep his cattle in. He 
has a little money and bought himsHf a 
farm, and wants to move on it in Sep¬ 
tember. Can I make him pay me the 
other six months’ rent for the balance of 
the rear, and can l make him replace the 
or rye seeded for Winter. We have no 
signed agreement on either side. W. n. 
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