Batchelder v. Lake
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Trover, for certain articles of household furniture. It appeared that in the year 1834/John Lake/3d, a son of the defendant, was married to a daughter of the plaintiff. Before the marriage, the plaintiff had procured the furniture in question, for the use of his daughter, but had said that he did not intend to give her any thing.
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Trover, for certain articles of household furniture. It appeared that in the year 1834/John Lake/3d, a son of the defendant, was married to a daughter of the plaintiff. Before the marriage, the plaintiff had procured the furniture in question, for the use of his daughter, but had said that he did not intend to give her any thing. On the day of the marriage, after the furniture had been put into carts, in the road near the house of the plaintiff, for the purpose of being carried to the house of John Labe, 3d, the plaintiff said to him, “ Here, John, I lend you these things • I wish you to make…
1Opinion of the CourtGilchrist, J.
It does not appear, in this case, that the defendant has been in any way prejudiced by any transaction or understanding between the plaintiff and John Lake, 3d. He is not a creditor of his son, claiming to hold the property by any voluntary transfer from him, as security for a debt, nor does he set up a title derived from an attachment or levy of execution. He does not allege that he has purchased the property from one who held himself out |o the world as its owner, and that he has thus been injured by any secret trust between his son and the plaintiff. He does not claim directly nor…
2Cited by1 opinion
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