Stickney v. Stickney
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The court, in its opinion, stated tbe case as follows : This suit was brought by the complainant below, appellee here, Jeannie K. Stickney, widow of William Stickney, who died in October, 1881, against certain of his heirs, to establish her claim as creditor for the sum of about seventy-nine thousand dollars against the estate, real and personal, held in the name of her husband at the time of his death,1 and to…
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APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. The court, in its opinion, stated tbe case as follows : This suit was brought by the complainant below, appellee here, Jeannie K. Stickney, widow of William Stickney, who died in October, 1881, against certain of his heirs, to establish her claim as creditor for the sum of about seventy-nine thousand dollars against the estate, real and personal, held in the name of her husband at the time of his death,1 and to obtain a decree that said estate be applied to its payment, except so far as may be necessary to discharge his just debts.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The exceptions to the auditor’s report, calling for consideration, are founded upon two grounds : one, the supposed incompetency of the complainant to testify as to directions given to her husband to invest moneys of her separate estate for her benefit and in her name; and the other, the supposed conclusiveness of the presumption that moneys belonging to the separate estate of the wife, when she allows her husband to use them, become gifts to him.
The general rule of the common law is, that neither husband nor wife is admissible as a witness for or against each other in any case, civil or…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Fay v. GuynonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881
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