Collis v. Bowen

This was an action of trover by husband and. wife. The declaration alleges the possession and ownership of certain property to have been in the wife while sole, and its conversion by the defendant before the marriage of the plaintiffs, and concludes to the damage of the husband only. Pleas, the general issue, and the statute of limitations. Verdict for the plaintiffs; motion in arrest of judgment overruled; and final judgment on the verdict.

The plaintiffs offered in evidence the declarations of the wife’s mother, who had been the former wife of the defendant, “ as to the ownership of the…