Morgan v. Thames Bank
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action on the case for the neglect and refusal of the defendants to transfer to the plaintiff two shares of their stock claimed by him, and to pay him certain dividends which had been declared thereon.
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This was an action on the case for the neglect and refusal of the defendants to transfer to the plaintiff two shares of their stock claimed by him, and to pay him certain dividends which had been declared thereon. The cause was tried at New-London, September term, 1839, before Williams, Ch. J. In March, 1830, Jeremiah Kinsman, by his last will and testament, gave one half of his personal estate to Roswell Adams, his son-in-law, and executor, in trust for his daughter, Joanna Bacon, the wife of Benjamin Bacon, to be converted into money for her use, or to be delivered to her for her benefit,…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
The bank stock, for the value of which this action is brought, having been regularly transferred, by the executor and trustee of Jeremiah Kinsman, deceased, the former owner, to his daughter, who was the wife of Benjamin Bacon, in pursuance of and agreeably to the terms of the will of said deceased, the title to it vested, on such transfer, in the said Bacon, and became liable to be levied on, as his property. No rule is better established than that personal property, accruing to the wife during coverture, including choses in action, vests immediately and absolutely in the husband, on the…
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