Farnsworth v. Whiting
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
In equity. On appeal, exceptions and motion by plaintiff. Two bills in equity in the nature of equitable replevin, brought by the plaintiff in her capacity as administratrix, with the will annexed, of the estate of James R. Farnsworth, deceased, to compel the defendants to return to her as administratrix aforesaid, certain notes, bonds, etc., alleged to belong to said James R. Farnsworth, and to deliver to her in her said capacity the keys to a certain safe-deposit box…
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In equity. On appeal, exceptions and motion by plaintiff. Two bills in equity in the nature of equitable replevin, brought by the plaintiff in her capacity as administratrix, with the will annexed, of the estate of James R. Farnsworth, deceased, to compel the defendants to return to her as administratrix aforesaid, certain notes, bonds, etc., alleged to belong to said James R. Farnsworth, and to deliver to her in her said capacity the keys to a certain safe-deposit box rented by the said Security Trust Company to the said James R. Farnsworth, etc. (For a more full and complete statement of…
1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.
Two bills in equity brought by complainant, in her capacity of administratrix with the will annexed of the estate of James R. Farnsworth, deceased, against the same defendants, save that in the second case the Security Trust Company is also made a defendant. The relief sought is in the nature of equitable replevin. The defense in the answers to both bills is claim of title in defendants Whiting and Martin by reason of a gift causa mortis to them by deceased.
In both cases, among other issues framed and submitted to a jury, was the question whether in the respective cases deceased did in his…
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- Parker v. SimpsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1902
- Clarke v. WhiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1838
- Holden v. HoytMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1883
- Crocker v. CrockerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
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