Bruce v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass for taking and carrying away of the separate property of the said Martha, wife Of said Kendall, four tons of hay, one cow, and twenty bushels of oats. Plea, not guilty, and trial by the court. The parties agreed upon the following facts.
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Trespass for taking and carrying away of the separate property of the said Martha, wife Of said Kendall, four tons of hay, one cow, and twenty bushels of oats. Plea, not guilty, and trial by the court. The parties agreed upon the following facts. That some time prior to January, 1845, the said Kendall Bruce and one William Bruce, were justly indebted to one John Gray, of Montpelier, in the sum of eighty dollars, specified in a promissory note, dated the 7th day of February, 1842, and signed by the said William and Kendall Bruce, and made payable to the said Gray or order, on which note the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redeield, Ch. J.
This action is brought to recover the value of property, sold by the defendant as an officer, upon execution, for the sole debt of the husband, the property being the annual products of the wife’s land, in possession, and carried on at the expense of the husband. The parties, before their intermarriage, made, in contemplation of such an event, what they considered a marriage settlement which was a stipulation between themselves, merely, and without the intervention of trustees, that the wife *746should enjoy her separate property, without…
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