Case Name: HOLLENBACK v. MILLER et ux.
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1827-05
Citations: 12 F. Cas. 346
Docket Number: 
Parties: HOLLENBACK v. MILLER et ux.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 12
Pages: 346–346

Head Matter:
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.”

Opinion:
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.