Boss v. Ed & Al Matthews Inc.

Suit in trover brought by Ed & A1 Matthews Incorporated, against Mrs. H. Boss, to recover personal property which the plaintiffs claimed under a retention-of-title contract executed on April 5, 1932, by the defendant to the plaintiff’s transferor, Ed & A1 Matthews, a partnership. The defendant denied liability, upon the ground that the debt ■ represented by the contract was, as to all the articles except a gas stove, a debt of her husband, and that for this reason the contract was void. It appeared from the uncontradicted evidence and that most favorable to the plaintiff that a portion of the…