Riemenschneider v. Kalaehao
Hawaii Supreme Court
Exceptions to Rulings oe Judd, C. J. Marriage does not vest choses in action of the wife in the husband, unless he takes steps to reduce them to possession during cover-ture : so held as to promissory notes made to the wife by a third party, for a loan made out of her private money. A carriage and horses bought by the wife with money derived from sale of her land; held to be the property of the husband. New trial ordered, unless plaintiff files remittitur.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion oe the Court, by
Preston, J.
This case comes up on a bill of exceptions to the rulings of the Chief Justice on the trial of the action before a mixed jury at the last October Term.
The action is in trover, and is brought by the administrator of the estate of William Harbottle, deceased, for the wrongful conversion of one express carriage or hack, of the value of $350, in the lifetime of plaintiff’s intestate. A second count alleges a conversion, since the intestate’s death, of four horses, four sets of harness, one express carriage and three certain promissory notes for sums amounting in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Shuttlesworth v. NoyesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1811
3Cited by2 opinions
- Kang v. HarringtonHawaii Supreme Court · 1978
- George v. HoltHawaii Supreme Court · 1893