Cox v. Morrow
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Saline county. The Hon. W. H. Feild, Circuit Judge, presiding. It is well settled that if any interest in a chattel vest in a female before or during coverture, although a particular estate may exist undetermined, so that no actual possession is acquired by the husband during the life of the wife, the right will belong to the husband in case he survives, and pass to his administrator: and the husband is entitled even to her contingencies as…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Saline county. The Hon. W. H. Feild, Circuit Judge, presiding. It is well settled that if any interest in a chattel vest in a female before or during coverture, although a particular estate may exist undetermined, so that no actual possession is acquired by the husband during the life of the wife, the right will belong to the husband in case he survives, and pass to his administrator: and the husband is entitled even to her contingencies as much as to any other species of property. Ewing’s Heirs vs. Handley’s Exrs. 4 Liliell, 356. Banks Admr.vs. Marksberry,3…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Watkins
Waiving any objection to the manner in which the questions of law, supposed to be involved in this case, were sought to be-reserved in the court below, we may assume, for the consideration of them here, that the facts (and which might readily have-been put into the shape of an agreed case, or a special verdict by the court below sitting as a jury), are as follows. In 1808 Asa Grant died in North Carolina, leaving a will, one clause of which is in these words, “ I further give unto my beloved wife, (Jemmima), one negro woman, known by the name of Harriett,- and her issue, during her natural…
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- Pitts v. CurtisSupreme Court of Alabama · 1842
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