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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 6,609.
    HOLLENBACK v. MILLER et ux.
    [3 Cranch, C. C. 176.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    May Term, 1827.
    Trover and Conversion — Husband and Wire.
    Trover will not lie against husband and wife for a conversion to her use only.
    [Action of trover by William Hollenbaek against Michael Miller and wife.] The declaration stated that the defendants converted the goods “to her own use.”
   J. Dunlop, moved in arrest of' judgment, that there cannot be a conversion to the use of the wife during the coverture. 2 Saund. 47, note; Rhemes v. Humphreys, Cro. Car. 254; Perry v. Diggs, Cro. Car. 494.

Judgment arrested (nem. con.) for that reason.