Keelan v Garvey

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1927
• Date: 01 January 1927
• Court: Supreme Court (Irish Free State)

S. C.,

Keelan

and

Garvey

Husband and wife - Husband in possession of lands as tenant - Husband going away and wife remaining in possession - Wife claiming little to lands as against her husband - Character of wife's occupation - Real Property Limitation Act, 1833 (3 4 Wm. IV., c. 27), s. 7 - Wife's title erroneously registered - Rectification of register - Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891 (54 55 Vict., c. 66), s. 34.

Plaintiff's father died in 1896, having by his will bequeathed his small farm to plaintiff, subject to the use of two apartments and a small piece of ground, with other privileges, to his wife (plaintiff's mother), and also subject to the use, by another son, of certain workshops, with two other apartments. In February, 1897, plaintiff married, and he and his wife...