Griswold v. Penniman
Supreme Court of Connecticut
THIS was an action on a probate bond, tried at Norwich, January term 1818, before Sxvifl, Ch. J., and Braiuard and Goddard, Js. Joshua Starr died intestate, leaving personal estate, and several children, one of whom was the defendant Mary Penniman, then wife of John Penniman. Administration was taken on the estate of the deceased ; but no distribution was made to the heirs, until after the death of John Penni-man.
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THIS was an action on a probate bond, tried at Norwich, January term 1818, before Sxvifl, Ch. J., and Braiuard and Goddard, Js. Joshua Starr died intestate, leaving personal estate, and several children, one of whom was the defendant Mary Penniman, then wife of John Penniman. Administration was taken on the estate of the deceased ; but no distribution was made to the heirs, until after the death of John Penni-man. On his decease, the defendant, Mary Penniman, took administration on his estate, and gave the bond on which this suit is brought, for the faithful performance of her trust. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Swift, Ch. ,T.
The husband, by marriage, acquires a right to the use of the real estate of his wife, during her life ; and if they have a child born alive, then, if he survives, during his life, as tenant by the curtesey. lie acquires an absolute right to her chattels real, and may dispose of them. If he docs-not dispose of them, and survives his wife, they survive to him : but if she outlives her husband, they survive to iler. He acquires an absolute property in her chattels personal in possession ; but as to her chos’s in action, he. may maintain a Suit jointly with her to recover them : and *566…
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