Patterson v. Patterson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed on December 19, 1906, by the libellee in. a divorce proceeding begun on December 5, 1906, in the Superior Court for the county'of Suffolk, seeking to compel the libellant to return to her certain specified personal property alleged to be hers but to be unlawfully detained and concealed by him so that it could not be reached to be taken by replevin or other process of law. The respondent filed an answer and the petitioner a replication.
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Petition, filed on December 19, 1906, by the libellee in. a divorce proceeding begun on December 5, 1906, in the Superior Court for the county'of Suffolk, seeking to compel the libellant to return to her certain specified personal property alleged to be hers but to be unlawfully detained and concealed by him so that it could not be reached to be taken by replevin or other process of law. The respondent filed an answer and the petitioner a replication. The divorce proceedings, in which the petition was filed, were instituted by the husband, the respondent in the petition, he charging the…
1Opinion of the Court
Knowlton, O. J.
Most of the defendant’s exceptions to the master’s report relate to the title to the property. Many of the important articles were claimed by the petitioner under leases in writing, which were also conditional sales, made to her by shopkeepers. The fact that these conveyances were made directly to her, in her name, with the knowledge and consent of her husband, with nothing to control or affect the legal presumption *117from such conveyances, except the fact that her husband furnished her a large part of the money to pay for the goods, while she furnished the rest, and the further…
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