Pritchard v. Norwood
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Replevin, by the administrator of the estate of Mary I. Gould, for a promissory note for $1,400, dated December 7,1887, payable on demand to the order of the intestate, and signed by the Haverhill Aqueduct Company. The defendant filed the following answer: “ And now comes the defendant, and for answer denies each and every allegation in the plaintiff’s writ and declaration contained, as fully as if the same were herein specifically set forth and denied.
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Replevin, by the administrator of the estate of Mary I. Gould, for a promissory note for $1,400, dated December 7,1887, payable on demand to the order of the intestate, and signed by the Haverhill Aqueduct Company. The defendant filed the following answer: “ And now comes the defendant, and for answer denies each and every allegation in the plaintiff’s writ and declaration contained, as fully as if the same were herein specifically set forth and denied. And further answering, the defendant says that Mary I. Gould, while the holder and owner of the note set forth in the plaintiff’s writ, died…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
By his demurrer the plaintiff admits all the allegations of the defendant’s answer, except, it is agreed, the general denial contained therein. The answer, in substance, alleges that Mary I. Gould died intestate, and was at the time of her death the owner and holder of the note in replevin, and that her mother, Sarah F. Gould, was entitled as distributee to all of Mary’s goods and chattels, after the payment of her debts; that Mary left no debts, and no administrator was appointed on her estate till after her mother’s death; and that the mother took and kept possession of all the estate of…
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