Kennington v. Hemingway

Citations

• 101 Miss. 259
• 57 So. 809

Syllabus

<p>1. Husband and Wife. Gifts. Validity. Oode 1906, section 2522, Statutes, Construction. Intent.</p> <p>A gift by a husband to his wife of a personal ornament, clothing and wearing apparel suitable to her condition in life, is valid as against a third person, although such gift is not evidenced by' a written instrument, acknowledged and recorded as provided! by section 2522, Oode 1906.</p> <p>2. Statutes. Construction. Legislative intent.</p> <p>In the construction of statutes, courts chiefly desire to reach -the real intention of the framers of the law, and knowing this to adopt that interpretation which will meet the real meaning of the legislature, though such interpretation may be beyond or within, wider or narrower than the mere letter of the enact-ment.</p>