Bishop v. Readsboro Chair Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1910, Bennington County, Hall, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. It appeared that plaintiff did not hold the premises in question to her sole and separate use. The opinion states the case.
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Case for negligence. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the June Term, 1910, Bennington County, Hall, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. It appeared that plaintiff did not hold the premises in question to her sole and separate use. The opinion states the case. As plaintiff did not hold the premises in question to her sole and separate use, Deitrich v. Hutchinson, her husband had a freehold estate in the property during their joint lives, and so the action should have been brought in his name alone. Hubbard v. Hubbard, 77 Vt. 73; Bowen v.…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
One ground assigned in the defendant’s; motion for a verdict, also in its motion to set aside the verdict,, is, that from the undisputed evidence the plaintiff at the time the grievances complained of were committed, was and hitherto-has been and now is a feme covert, living with her husband on the premises alleged to have been damaged by the negligence of the defendant, of which premises the husband was and is-, seised in the right of his wife, but has not been joined as a party-plaintiff in this action.
At the time of the plaintiff’s marriage in 1903, she was; seised of an estate of…
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