Pierson v. Heisey
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Des Moines District Court. Replevin for a piano. — Plaintiff claims it as a gift from ber father and defendant under an execution against the father. Yerdict and judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Wright, Ch. J.
i. fraud : gat to cww. The only testimony in the case is that of the execution defendant, from which it appears that in 1857, when plaintiff was about fourteen years of age (at the time of suit brought she was twenty-one), he took her to a music store, and bought and presented to her the piano in question; that he was then solvent; that she had the same conveyed to his house; that the bill for the same was made to him, and he executed a bill of sale on the instrument, to secure the purchase-money; that it was put in his parlor where it remained since with his furniture, but that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Odell v. Lee & KinnardSupreme Court of Iowa · 1863
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