Dubois v. Jackson

This was an action of replevin, with a count in trover, brought to the Kankakee Circuit Court, by Ann Ellen Jackson against Sidney Dubois, for a piano, and a verdict and ' judgmentforplaintiff, to reverse which, the defendant appealed to this court.

It appears, the piano in question was the property of the plaintiff at the time of her marriage with William Jackson, in England, in 1865, they both being then residents of that kingdom. On their immigration to this country, they brought the piano with them, and, as the facts tend strongly to show, it was sold by the husband to the defendant, and…