Person v. Chase
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover for several articles of personal chattels. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury, April Term, 1864. It appeared on trial that the plaintiff’s minor son Charles, the intestate, made some presents to the defendant’s minor daughter Fanny, a young lady to whom the intestate was engaged to be married at the time of and previous to his death ; that these presents were made when he went away into the army; that he made the said Fanny his agent to draw his pay as a soldier, and to…
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Trover for several articles of personal chattels. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury, April Term, 1864. It appeared on trial that the plaintiff’s minor son Charles, the intestate, made some presents to the defendant’s minor daughter Fanny, a young lady to whom the intestate was engaged to be married at the time of and previous to his death ; that these presents were made when he went away into the army; that he made the said Fanny his agent to draw his pay as a soldier, and to pay what he was owing, and otherwise control said money; that his estate was owing nothing; that his father had…
1Opinion of the CourtKellogg, J.
The question, in this case is, whether an absolute gift of articles of personal property made by an infant can be revoked or avoided by him, or by his administrator as his legal personal representative. There is a recognized distinction between those acts of an infant which are voidable and those which are void; but these terms have been not unfrequently used in statutes, decisions, text books, and contracts in an ambiguous or indefinite sense, and without any regard to strict precision of meaning. The application and import of these terms were very fully considered in State v. Richmond, 26…
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