Burns v. Thompson

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Pociut, J.

Plaintiff sues her husband for a dissolution of the community, and to recover a moneyed judgment for about $20,000, in restitution of her paraphernal funds alleged to have been received by her husband and converted to his own use and benefit; the moneyed judgment to be credited with the sum of $7,635, received by the wife through a transfer of property made to her by the husband as a elation en paiement on the 14th of November, 1883.

As usual, in such cases, the contest is exclusively between the wife and her husband’s creditors, several of…