Gamber v. Gamber
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Lancaster county. This was an action of replevin by Martha Gamber v. Henry Gamber, to recover a one-horse carriage, of the value of $110. The property was delivered to the plaintiff, and the narr. was in the usual form for detaining the property.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Lancaster county. This was an action of replevin by Martha Gamber v. Henry Gamber, to recover a one-horse carriage, of the value of $110. The property was delivered to the plaintiff, and the narr. was in the usual form for detaining the property. On the trial, it was shown that John Gamber, the husband of the plaintiff, in company with his wife, in the fall of the year 1848, went to the shop of Christian Landis, and after examining certain carriages, ordered Landis to make him one of a particular pattern, for the sum of $110. Landis made one, and delivered it to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered, by
Black, C. J.
John Gamber died insolvent. His widow claimed a carriage as her separate property. If there is any evidence on the record to show that it was hers, this judgment must be affirmed.
The husband said, before the carriage was bought, that his wife was going to give him the money to pay for it, and declared after-wards that she had done so. When asked for the loan of it he referred the applicants to his wife, and said the carriage belonged to her. The administrators of the husband did not include it in the appraisement of his effects, because…
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