Palmer v. Murray
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from, the Second Judicial District, Deer Lodge County. STATEMENT. The plaintiff, Emma J. Palmer, whose maiden name was Lena Emma Owens, brought an action against the sheriff of Deer Lodge County, for the value of forty-five head of horses, which he had taken possession of, and sold, under the terms of a chattel mortgage, executed by William J. Palmer, plaintiff’s husband, to James A. Murray, one of his creditors, embracing the said horses and other personal property.
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Appeal from, the Second Judicial District, Deer Lodge County. STATEMENT. The plaintiff, Emma J. Palmer, whose maiden name was Lena Emma Owens, brought an action against the sheriff of Deer Lodge County, for the value of forty-five head of horses, which he had taken possession of, and sold, under the terms of a chattel mortgage, executed by William J. Palmer, plaintiff’s husband, to James A. Murray, one of his creditors, embracing the said horses and other personal property. Murray was substituted as defendant in the case, for the said sheriff. The plaintiff based her claim to the horses in…
1Opinion of the CourtLiddell, J.
On the 17th of April, 1872, Lena Emma Owens married William J. Palmer, and thereafter took the name of Emma J. Palmer. On the same day she executed and filed the following declaration and list of separate property, in the recorder’s office for Deer Lodge County, where she resided before, at the time of, and ever since her marriage:—
*179“ Know all men by these presents, that I, Lena Owens, now sole and unmarried, and residing in the county of Deer Lodge, and Territory of Montana, make known by these presents, published, to whom it may concern, that I claim and hold in my separate right, as against…
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