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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 26. 1921 
SUCCESSFUL PIPELESS HEATING 
The name CALORIC identifies the heating plant 
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It identifies the heating plant that is sold under 
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The Monitor Stove Company 
( The Monitor Family) 
102 Years in Business 
127 Woodrow St. Cincinnati, Ohio 
The CaloriC actually costs less 
than the stoves necessary to heat 
same size building. May be in¬ 
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pipes to freeze. Burns any fuel. 
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Nearest Branch Address 
THE MONITOR STOVE COMPANY 
Bush Terminal Sales Bldg. 
132 West 42nd Street New York City 
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© T. M. S. Co. 1921 
PRICES REDUCED! 
oik Wire Fencing 
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Box 314, Statesville, N. C. 
Hoffman’s Farm Seeds 
Prices Lower 
Very best qualities of Clover. Al¬ 
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Law Cases Involving Women 
Joint Deed; Transfer of Debtor’s 
Property 
1. If a man and wife have a joint 
deed of one or more farms for several 
years, and the man dies without leaving 
any debts, but has children, will the wife 
hold the property or will she have to go 
through a process of settlement, same as 
if she did not hold half deed with her 
husband? 2. Can a man who owes debts 
deed his property to his wife and leave 
the debt unpaid? Can a man give notes 
for debts payable at his death, thus after 
giving the notes can he deed all his 
property to his wife and not provide for 
the notes to be paid? Will such tran¬ 
sactions stand in law. w. B. 
New York. 
1; Title Will pass directly (to the 
widow on the death of the husband with¬ 
out any process of Caw whatsoever. 
2. A man who owes debts can deed 
his property to his wife and leave the 
debts unpaid. If this transfer was made 
for the purpose of defrauding creditors 
and without valuable consideration, a 
court of equity will set aside the deed. 
Inheritance; Husband’s Right to Wife’s 
Property 
1. If a husband die without a will, 
having children, what share of the prop¬ 
erty can a Avife hold in New York? If 
the’ wife die without a will what share of 
the property can the husband hold? The 
children belong to both. 2. I am told 
that a wife teaching school, her husband 
can collect her school money. Is this 
true? E. l. 
New York. 
1. In the ease you name either sur¬ 
viving husband or wife would take the 
sum of one-third of all real property left 
by the other, and the remainder would go 
to the children. If there was personal 
property either the surviving husband or 
the surviving wife would be entitled to a 
one-third part of the personal property 
of the other, after payment of debts, and 
the residue will be divided in equal por¬ 
tions among the children. 
2. A husband may not collect wages 
due his wife without her consent. 
Women’s Factory Hours 
We own a little fruit and poultry 
place just out the city line. We work 
in the city factories in Winter some. Our 
present employer says that my wife—all 
women working for him—must work 10 
hours each day on Monday. Tuesday, 
Wednesday. Thursday. Friday and four 
hours on Saturday, 54 hours each week. 
Can he require this? Has ages anything 
to do with this? a. g. b. 
New York. 
The labor law of the State of New 
Ylork makjes the following provision : 
No female minor under the age of 21 
years and no woman shall be employed or 
permitted to work in any factory in this 
State more than six day or 54 hours in 
any one week ; nor more than nine hours 
in any one day except as hereinafter pro¬ 
vided. No female minor under the age 
of 21 shall he employed or permitted to 
work in any factory in this State before 
six o’clock in the morning or after nine 
o’clock in the evening of any day. 
(Exceptions) A female 10 years of age 
and a male between the ages of 10 and 18 
may be employed in a factory more than 
nine hours a day: . " 
(a) Regularly in not to exceed five 
days a week, in order to make a short day 
or holiday on one of the six working 
days of the week; 
(b) Irregularly in not to exceed three 
days a week ; p-ovided that no such per¬ 
son shall be required or permitted to 
work more, than 10 hours in any one day 
or more than 54 hours in one week. 
These exceptions are allowed, provided 
the provisions of the law. as to notice or 
time book be fully complied with. 
Husband’s Share in Wife’s Property 
Where the wife owns property and there 
are no children, if she makes no will does 
the husband get anything? J. W. T. 
Where a wife who owns personal pro¬ 
perty dies without a will, and leaves no 
children her surviving, under the laws 
of the State of New Jersey the entire 
personal property goes to the husband. 
If there were children the parent would 
take one-third and the balance should go 
equally among them. Real estate left by 
the wife, who died without a will, leav¬ 
ing no children, goes to the brothers and 
sisters of the wife. If there were chil¬ 
dren the husband would have a right of 
courtesy which would entitle him to use 
of the property for life. 
Alien’s Property Right 
Can an alien buy real estate and leave 
it to his children? I have been told the 
State claims it. If so. could you tell me 
how it could he fixed so that his children 
could get it at his death, the children 
being of age? w. S. c. 
A citizen of a state or nation which 
by its laws confers similar privileges on 
the citizens of United States may take, 
acquire, hold and convey lands or real 
estate within this State in the same man¬ 
ner and with the same effect as if such 
persons were at the time citizens of the 
United States. An alien who has de¬ 
clared his intention of becoming a citizen 
and who is a resident of the United States 
and intends to remain such a resident 
may make and file a deposition with the 
Secretary of State, which must be re¬ 
corded by the Secretary of State in a 
book kept for that purpose. For a period 
of six years after filing the deposition 
such an alien may take, hold or convey 
and devise real property. If a person 
who has filed such a deposition dies with¬ 
in six years thereafter, and before he is 
admitted to citizenship, his property 
would descend to his widow and heirs 
upon such persons being admitted to citi¬ 
zenship or filing a deposition in their be¬ 
half. N. T. 
Property Sold for Taxes 
I paid the delinquent taxes on T 1 /^ acres 
with an old building on it. and a small 
amount of poor furniture in the house. 
They say I have possession of the land 
and any improvements I make are to be 
paid for in case a blood relation should 
be found. The old man who owned it left 
it to his second wife (the first one had 
been dead for years) and she failed to 
make a disposal of same. No relatives 
are known. Have I the furniture also to 
take care of until the two years are up, 
and then when the court gives me a deed 
I can dispose of same, but not before 
that time? Is this correct? W. 
A deed of real property sold for taxes 
would not carry with it personal prop¬ 
erty in the house. If you kept the house¬ 
hold goods two years you will be entitled 
to storage, and this would probably be 
worth more than the goods. In order to 
be perfectly secure you might sell the 
goods for storage, after advertising them 
as such. 
Damage from Overhanging Trees 
What is the law in New York State on 
trees? Suppose I had along my line 
fence 40 trees, and my neighbor could 
not raise anything along where the trees 
stand, for three or four rods, can lie com¬ 
pel me to cut them or not? G. a. r. 
Your neighbor cannot compel you to cut 
down the trees. He may, however, cut 
off all branches of your trees which pro¬ 
trude over his side of the line. 
Damage to Unthrashed Grain 
I recently purchased a farm from A, 
who two years previous purchased it from 
R. Last year B had in 20 acres of wheat 
on this farm, renting on a 50-50 share 
basis. I bought this farm in October with 
(he understanding that A’s share of wheat 
and all the straw is mine. B, who holds 
a mortgage against this farm, promised 
to thrash the wheat at once, and I have 
spoken to him several time since, but the 
wheat is not thrashed yet, and a consid¬ 
erable share is spoiled, due to standing in 
the stack since July. B is a very ag¬ 
gressive, independent man. with plenty 
of money, while the $200 or $300 worth 
of wheat and straw would have helped 
me out considerably. Could you advise 
what steps I could take, or what laws, if 
any. would help me, to right my wrongs? 
Could I justly hold out a fair sum on the 
interest or principal of mortgage? M. 
New Jersey. 
It would not he best to attempt to with¬ 
hold any part of the interest money due 
B for the reason that the damage, if any, 
is not liquidated, and you do not know 
just how much you can legally withhold. 
If he owed you a definite sum, or if the 
court, or a regular arbitrator had decided 
as to how much you were damaged, then 
you might deduct it from the interest. Un¬ 
der the agreement, was it any more the 
duty of B to have the wheat thrashed 
than it was your duty? If it was not. it 
would be advisable for you to have the 
thrashing done and save any future dam¬ 
age. It will be well to notify B that you 
will have the thrashing done on a certain 
date, so that he can attend and measure 
his grain if he cares to. For the damages 
already done, if due to B’s fault or negli¬ 
gence, you may bring an action against 
him to have the amount of damages fixed. 
n. r. 
Legality of Signboards 
1. Can a neighbor lease or sell to an 
advertising firm the right to erect a large 
sign that is so close to my dwelling as to 
cut off my view of the highway and re¬ 
maining real estate? How near to a 
property line can an advertising sign be 
erected? Can a road patrolman force 
me to remove a sign erected by me inside 
road fence and among growing crops? 
Said sign is advertising my business and 
produce. E. d. b. 
Wallkill, N.. Y. . 
1. Assuming that you are not living 
in a city or village, and that there are no 
restrictions against the construction of 
the sign, there is no reason why your 
neighbor cannot erect a sign, so long as 
he does not commit a nuisance. In a re¬ 
cent case the court held that the bill¬ 
board in question was not a nuisance. 
2. The road patrolman cannot require 
you to remove a sign such as you describe, 
erected by you on your own premises. 
The fence may or may not indicate the 
bounds of the highway. 
