Hawkins v. Providence & Worcester Railroad
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, with a count in tort, for the loss of certain articles of personal property, delivered to the defendant corporation for transportation from Worcester to Providence, the plaintiff being a passenger at the time.
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Contract, with a count in tort, for the loss of certain articles of personal property, delivered to the defendant corporation for transportation from Worcester to Providence, the plaintiff being a passenger at the time. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Pitman, J., it appeared in evidence, on the part of the plaintiff, that, prior to the bringing of this suit, she and her husband lived together as husband and wife; that she and her husband had worked in a mill, and that .he had delivered to her from time to time his earnings, and that she had mingled with them her own earnings ; that…
1Opinion of the CourtAmes, J.
The statutes which from time to time have been enacted in this Commonwealth, for the purpose of enlarging the rights and privileges of married women, have not in terms made any specific regulations in regard to the ownership of their wearing apparel. Except in cases where the wife herself purchases it with her own separate money or earnings, that matter remains exactly as it stood at common law. At common law, the husband is bound to maintain the wife, and to provide her with suitable clothing appropriate to their degree and his own circumstances and social position. If the articles of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Sampson v. BradfordMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1850
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- GarlandSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1927
- Farrow v. FarrowSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1907
- D'Amico v. D'AmicoMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1973
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