Bowline v. Cox

GARDNER, Chief Justice.

The suit is in detinue by the administrator of the estate of Francis Bowline, deceased, against defendant C. K. Cox for the recovery of a diamond ring of the value of $2,000. There was verdict and judgment for the defendant, from which the plaintiff prosecutes this appeal.

It is clearly established by the proof that the ring in question formerly belonged to Francis Bowline, plaintiff’s intestate, who died at the age of 74 in December, 1945, and that on numerous occasions decedent had been seen wearing this ring. Bowline was a widower, his wife having died in 1939, and…