Gover v. Owings
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. Assumpsit, brought on the 4th of January 1855, by the appellee against the appellant, to recover a sum of money alleged to have been improperly and illegally paid, by the defendant, to the husband of the plaintiff, during his life, said sum being claimed as belonging to and part of the plaintiff’s sole and separate estate. Plea non assumpsit.
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Appeal from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. Assumpsit, brought on the 4th of January 1855, by the appellee against the appellant, to recover a sum of money alleged to have been improperly and illegally paid, by the defendant, to the husband of the plaintiff, during his life, said sum being claimed as belonging to and part of the plaintiff’s sole and separate estate. Plea non assumpsit. It appears, from the proof in tine case on the part of the plaintiff, that the plaintiff, formerly named Mary Catharine S. Hubbell, being about to marry Samuel C. Owings, executed with the said Owings,…
1Opinion of the CourtLe Grand, C. J.
This is an action to recover from the appellant, who was the defendant below, a sum of money alleged to have been improperly and illegally paid to the husband of the plaintiff during his life, said sum being claimed as belonging to and as part of her sole and separate estate. The circumstances of the case may be thus briefly stated: The plaintiff, contemplating an intermarriage with a gentleman, who subsequently became her husband, together with him and another, executed the instrument of the 7th day of June 1858. This paper is designated in the record as the “marriage settlement,” and was…
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