Hackett v. Hewitt
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trespass'and trover for a cow and two steers. Plea, general issue and notice. Trial by jury, December Term, 1884, Taft, J., presiding. Verdict for the plaintiff.
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Trespass'and trover for a cow and two steers. Plea, general issue and notice. Trial by jury, December Term, 1884, Taft, J., presiding. Verdict for the plaintiff. It appeared, that the plaintiff’s wife, Lorette E. Hackett, at the time of her marriage had one cow and about $100 in money; that said property was always treated and considered by the plaintiff as his wife’s sole and separate property; that tlxe cow and steers ixx coixteixtioxi were acquired by said property, and always coxxsidered as her separate property. The court instructed the jury that the plaintiff was exxtitled to recover…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Ross, J.
The defendant, as a deputy sheriff on a proper process, regularly attached and sold the property sued for as the property of the plaintiff. The plaintiff now seeks, and by the County Court was allowed, to recover for the property in his own name, on the ground that the property was the sole and separate property of his wife. Under the decisions and law of this State, which are so fully, carefully, and clearly collated, stated, and reviewed in the brief of the defendant’s counsel, that they need not be further referred to, we think this was…
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