Darrier v. Darrier
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. I. The court should have admitted the plaintiffs testimony with regard to the instructions sent by him to his wife as to how the title to the laud was to be taken, and should also have admitted the letter from the plaintiff to the defendant on the same subject.
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Appeal from Jefferson Circuit Court. I. The court should have admitted the plaintiffs testimony with regard to the instructions sent by him to his wife as to how the title to the laud was to be taken, and should also have admitted the letter from the plaintiff to the defendant on the same subject. The text books, laying down the rule as to the exclusion of evidence of confidential communications between husband and wife, only refer to cases where the communication is to he proven by either against the party making it. (1 Greenl. Ev., 12 Ed., ch. 13, p. 286, §254; ch. 2. p. 390, § 337; 2…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, Judge
This case presents the anomalous feature of a husband seeking to divest his wife of the title to certain school lands, which formerly belonged to school township number six, in Jefferson county, charging in his petition that, while he was in the United States army, the defendant, with money which liehad furnished, in contravention of her express .promise and of his explicit instruction's to take the title in his name, had fraudu*225lently succeeded, by means of a deed from one Herman Darrier, and of certain patents issued by the State of Missouri, in taking the title in her own name: which…
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