Green v. Adams
Supreme Court of Vermont
Bill of interpleader.. Heard on the pleadings and a special master’s report, March Term, 1887, Yeazey, Chancellor. The whole fund in controyefsy, except the note signed by Levi W. Seaver, was decreed to the defendant Hattie Y. Adams, and the said Levi W. Seaver note was decreed to the defendant' Folsom. The case is stated in the opinion.
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Bill of interpleader.. Heard on the pleadings and a special master’s report, March Term, 1887, Yeazey, Chancellor. The whole fund in controyefsy, except the note signed by Levi W. Seaver, was decreed to the defendant Hattie Y. Adams, and the said Levi W. Seaver note was decreed to the defendant' Folsom. The case is stated in the opinion. The wife’s lien for alimony is on the husband’s real estate and stock in corporations, but not on- his personal estate, and he can dispose of this as he pleases, without her consent. In the case of Foster v. Foster, 56 Yt. 540, no question was made as to…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Walker, J.
This is a bill of interpleader by which the orator asks leave to pay the funds in his hands under a conveyance to him by Josiah W. Seaver for certain purposes under a so-called trust, to such one of the defendant claimants as the court shall decree it of right belongs.
It appears from the pleadings and master’s report that on the twenty-sixth day of October, 1879, Josiah W. Seaver, of Waitsfield, who then was the lawful husband of the defendant, Hattie Y. Adams (then called by the name of Seaver), having-confessed that he was guilty of the…
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