Estate of Clancy

Citations

• 5 Coffey 430

Syllabus

<p>Separate Property of Wife—Admissions of Husband.—Where it appears that the purchase price of real estate was paid from the separate property of a married woman, and the deed was taken in her name, and the husband, upon her death, avers in his petition for let ters of administration that such property was the separate property of the decedent, and swears to the same effect on the hearing of the petition, and also in the inventory and appraisement, his admissions are, when unexplained, conclusive of the character of the property.</p>