Baker's Executors v. Kilgore
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
This action was commenced, October 12, 1886, before a Justice of the Peace of Greene County, Tennessee, and involves the right of property in three heifers and one steer, levied upon as the property of Frederick Scruggs, but claimed by his wife to belong to her, and not subject to seizure or sale for the debts of her husband. Judgment having- been rendered for her, the case was carried by appeal to -the Circuit Court of that county.'.
It appears that Scruggs and wife were married about eighteen years before the commencement of this action, and lived, during most of their married life, on lands…
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