Palmer v. McMaster
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from, the District Court, Deer Lodge County. STATEMENT. The plaintiff, a married woman, brought an action for conversion against the defendant, a sheriff, who had levied upon certain personal property, at the instance of certain creditors of the plaintiff’s husband.
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Appeal from, the District Court, Deer Lodge County. STATEMENT. The plaintiff, a married woman, brought an action for conversion against the defendant, a sheriff, who had levied upon certain personal property, at the instance of certain creditors of the plaintiff’s husband. Plaintiff alleged "ownership in the chattels converted, and also claimed them as her separate property by virtue of a list of separate property, filed by her on the day of her marriage, in order to exempt the same from her husband’s debts, under the statute. The defendant denied the ownership of plaintiff, and set up in…
1Opinion of the CourtLiddell, J.
This is a suit against the sheriff for two thousand one hundred dollars, the value of certain personal property which the plaintiff avers belongs to her, and the possession of which she was wrongfully deprived of by the defendant under writs of attachment and execution issued against her husband, W. J. Palmer. She sets forth in her complaint and replication, that the property belonged to her at the time of her marriage, and that a list thereof was duly recorded, as the law directs, in the recorder’s office of the county in which she lived, on the day of her marriage with the defendant in…
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