Coltrane v. . Donnell

The presumption created by statute (N. 0. Code of 1931, section 7971(50), that plaintiff, who was in possession of the personal property involved in this controversy in January, 1932, was the owner and in possession of said property on 1 April of the five preceding years, is rebutted by the facts admitted by the defendant. He was not the owner or in possession of said property in 1928 or in 1927. He now owns the property as a distributee of the estate of John L. Coltrane, and was such owner on-1 April, 1931. The property was in his possession, as administrator of John L. Coltrane, deceased,…