Wright v. Holmes
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Trover brought by the plaintiff as administrator of the estate of Emma M. Swift, deceased, to recover damages for the conversion of deposits in three savings banks and one national bank, amounting to $5767.25, transferred by plaintiffs intestate to the defendant on the ninth day of May, 1903. Emma M- Swift, the deceased, died July 19, 1903, leaving a husband, Chandler Swift, to whom she was married August 5, 1902. Wyit dated Sept. 22, 1904. Plea, the genera]…
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On report. Trover brought by the plaintiff as administrator of the estate of Emma M. Swift, deceased, to recover damages for the conversion of deposits in three savings banks and one national bank, amounting to $5767.25, transferred by plaintiffs intestate to the defendant on the ninth day of May, 1903. Emma M- Swift, the deceased, died July 19, 1903, leaving a husband, Chandler Swift, to whom she was married August 5, 1902. Wyit dated Sept. 22, 1904. Plea, the genera] issue. Facts agreed upon and case reported to .the Law Court with the stipulation that the Law Court “should pass such…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
The plaintiffs decedent, a widow possessed of about ten thousand dollars and living at Belfast, married Chandler Swift of Paris, August 5, 1902, and in the same month went to his home to live with him. In the December following, being then ill and probably apprehensive of a fatal result, Mrs. Swift made a will' by which she gave her husband $500, and the income of $2000 more. Later she went to the hospital for treatment. After remaining there for seventeen days, she returned to her husband’s home, and stayed there until April 5, 1903, at which time she went back to Belfast, her former home..…
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