Savage v. . O'Neil
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the seventh district, granting a new trial. The cause, was tried at the Monroe Circuit by the court and a jury. This was an action of trespass against the defendant for taking a quantity of goods from a store in the city of Rochester. The plaintiff is the wife of Maurice A. Savage.
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Appeal from an order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the seventh district, granting a new trial. The cause, was tried at the Monroe Circuit by the court and a jury. This was an action of trespass against the defendant for taking a quantity of goods from a store in the city of Rochester. The plaintiff is the wife of Maurice A. Savage. The defendant justified the taking as a constable and by virtue of executions and judgments against the husband, claiming that the property belonged to him. The proof showed that for two years prior to January 2, 1862, Maurice A. Savage was the owner…
1Opinion of the Court
Earl, C.
The evidence shows that the plaintiff received money from her mother in Russia when she was twenty-one year’s old; that she had been married sixteen years; and that she left Russia six years before the trial, and came to Rochester, and had lived there since. She kept some of the money in a savings bank and some in her own possession, and from time to time loaned some to her husband, and he repaid it to her. On the 2d day of April, 1861, she loaned him of this money $800 and took his note, payable in eight months, and in September of the same year she loaned him $420 and took his note,…
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