Morgan v. Hecker
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Butte County, and from an order refusing a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Foote, C.
Hecker, the respondent here, was a creditor of W. J. Morgan, the husband of the plaintiff, in the sum of two hundred dollars. While he, the husband, was so indebted, Belle M. Morgan, the plaintiff, received from him, as a gift, and without any valuable consideration, a certain mare of the value of two hundred dollars, a buggy of the value of seventy-five dollars, and a set of harness of the value of fifteen dollars, all of which property was taken possession of by her, and used as her own, until levied upon by an execution issuing out of a justice’s court by virtue of a judgment…
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