Allen v. Clark
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort by the administrator of the estate of Losetta O. Hunt, late of Westfield, against the sheriff of the county of Hampden for the alleged conversion by one King, a deputy of the defendant, of certain personal property belonging to the estate of the intestate.
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Tort by the administrator of the estate of Losetta O. Hunt, late of Westfield, against the sheriff of the county of Hampden for the alleged conversion by one King, a deputy of the defendant, of certain personal property belonging to the estate of the intestate. Writ dated May 15,1908. At the trial in the Superior Court before DeCourey, J. it appeared that the plaintiff’s intestate died on March 16, 1903, leaving a husband and a son, and that the property in question was attached by King, on April 9, 1903, upon various writs against Alfred S. Hunt, the husband; that the intestate on May 9,…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
This is an action of tort in the nature of trover, tried in the Superior Court without a jury and sent here by report. It appears that one Losetta O. Hunt, a married woman, at the time of her death was, and for some time "before had been, engaged in carrying on the business of farming upon her own land with personal property belonging to her, but without having recorded a married woman’s certificate in accordance with the provisions of R. L. c. 153, § 10. She died on March 16,1903, and on April 7,1903, the plaintiff was appointed administrator of her estate. On April 9, 1903, one of the…
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