Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1897

Ago v. Canner

Ago v. Canner
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided January 9, 1897 · Allen
167 Mass. 390; 45 N.E. 754; 1897 Mass. LEXIS 349

Counsel

H. D. Gove & J. M. Gove, (F. W. Fancher with them,) for the defendant, submitted the case on a brief., C. F. Appleton Smith, for the plaintiff.

Ago v. Canner

Opinion of the Court

Allen, J.

The property belonged to the plaintiff. Her title to it was never lost. In this Commonwealth, a husband no longer has a right to make his wife’s personal property his own, by reducing it to his own possession. Her husband’s acts did not deprive her of her title, or of her right to maintain an action to enforce her title. Pub. Sts. c. 147, § 1. McCowan v. Donaldson, 128 Mass. 169. Pacific National Bank v. Windram, 133 *392Mass. 175. Butler v. Ives, 139 Mass. 202. Harmon v. Old Colony Railroad, 165 Mass. 100.

Exceptions overruled, with double costs.

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