Breen v. Pangborn

Defendant, claiming to be administrator of ^he deceased wife of plaintiff, Mrs. Mary Ellen Breen, took from plaintiff a considerable amount of personal property, wbicb plaintiff thereupon replevied, but in the court below judgment of return was given for defendant, and plaintiff brings error. The only question is whether defendant showed a superior right of possession.

The case finds that Mrs. Breen was formerly the widow and sole executrix and legatee of James Moran, who died in January, 1879. That his estate is not yet closed up, and that when defendant intermeddled with the property, there…