Dewey v. Goodenough
New York Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment entered upon a verdict for the plaintiff, rendered at a circuit court held in and for the county of Jefferson, in October, 1864, before Hon. Le Eot Morgan, justice.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Foster, J.
The action was brought to recover the value of certain moneys deposited in a savings bank, and of several promissory notes which the plaintiff alleged that Sarah G-oodenough, the deceased wife of the defendant, owned in her lifetime, and gave to the plaintiff in anticipation of death, and which she claimed were improperly withheld from her by the defendant, after the death of his said wife. The main questions on the trial were:
1st. Whether Sarah Goodenough was, in' her lifetime, the owner of the property in question, and if she was, then, 2d. Did she transfer it to the…
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