Bailey v. Bailey

If the jury believed the defendant’s testimony that the coat was delivered to her as a gift by the plaintiff’s wife in her lifetime, the plaintiff then taking and ever since retaining possession thereof, they could find a gift inter vivos completed by delivery of the subject of the gift. The plaintiff’s contention that because the gift was made during the donor’s last illness the gift as matter of law was a gift causa mortis was held unsound in Harriman v. Bunker, 79 N. H. 127.

The exception to the refusal to order a verdict is overruled. The statements of counsel to which exception was taken…