White v. Price
White v. Price
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court at special term, and the opinion of the general term on appeal from its decision (39 Hun, 394), sufficiently justify the judgment now before us, unless the trial court erred in rejecting, against the objection of the defendant, certain evidence which, as the appellant now contends, would show that the plaintiff had parted with all her interest in the property involved in this action. The testimony of the plaintiff, taken before the trial, shows, among other things, that she was a nun of the Roman Catholic church, “ and a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart.” Upon cross-examination by defendant’s counsel she said: “ Everything is in
The testimony indicates only that so far as might be she had ceased to be earthly-minded and, with a desire to be wholly occupied with her future obligations, was willing to devote her substance to the interest of the order to which she belonged. It fails to prove any transfer effectual even between the parties, and goes no farther than to show a subjection of her will, but no manifestation of it by any legal or valid form. Ho transfer of title was established, if we take her words in the broadest sense. But in any view the objection that better evidence existed as to what she had really done, was a good one, and the trial judge committed no error in sustaining it. The plaintiff’s cause .of action was meritorious, her resort to a court of equity necessary ; the points made against her recovery are, in view of the consideration already given to them by the court of original jurisdiction and by the general term, invalid, and suggest no reason for a continuance of the litigation.
The judgment appealed from should, therefore, be affirmed.
All concur, except Ruger, Ch. J., not sitting.
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