Steele v. Leonori
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Hon. Daniel Dillon, Judge. The claim that the wife makes, under section 2348, is a claim made for the husband ; she makes it vice the head of the family— he having absconded ; and delivery of property to her under that section, gives to her only the rights which the husband would have had,' if the property had been set off as exempt to him. Rendleman v. Rendleman, 6 West.
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Appeal from the St. Louis Circuit Court, Hon. Daniel Dillon, Judge. The claim that the wife makes, under section 2348, is a claim made for the husband ; she makes it vice the head of the family— he having absconded ; and delivery of property to her under that section, gives to her only the rights which the husband would have had,' if the property had been set off as exempt to him. Rendleman v. Rendleman, 6 West. Rep. 98. If it was meant by the statute, by such delivery of the husband’s property to the wife, to thereby invest the wife with absolute title to such property, the statute would be…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
In this case certain household furniture was attached in the suit of the plaintiff against Almon B. Thomson, an absconding debtor, and under the same attachment, a garnishment was also served upon It. U. Leonori, Jr., and R. U. Leonori, Jr., & Company. Interrogatories were exhibited to the garnishees, who made certain answers to the same. Thereupon the plaintiff filed a *678denial of these answers, setting np substantially the levy of her attachment upon certain property of Thomson, who had recently absconded from the state, and from his place of abode, at his residence in the city of St. Louis;…
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