Carran v. Mitchell

Opinion by

Judge Hines:.In this case the personal property claimed by the wife of Mitchell appears to have been coming to her from her father’s estate at the time of her marriage, and' if it had been in her possession would have vested in the husband. But, being in the hands of the administrator of the estate of the wife’s father, it was subject to her equity to a settlement out of it, which equity could only be enforced by proceedings in the proper tribunal before reduction to possession by the husband. In this interval the property might have been set aside to the wife, and in general a…