Stockwell v. Baird
Citations
- 15 Del. 420
Syllabus
<p>Sale. Delivery.—The payment for the pasturage of a colt by a purchaser is such an assumption oí ownership as constitutes a constructive delivery of the colt.</p> <p>Husband and Wife, Grift.—A wife cannot take property from her husband and hold it as her sole and separate property.</p> <p>Husband and Wife. Sale.—Where a husband stands by and assents to the sale by his wife of property which she claims under a gift from him, even if it is invalid, the purchaser will acquire as good a title as would pass to him by a direct sale of the husband’s interest.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- lost profits cases citing the \knowledge of special circumstances\ rule of Hadley v. Baxendale , 9 Ex. 341, 156 Eng. Rep. 154 (1854)
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