Crow v. Van Sickle’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. ““The power of management and absolute disposition of the common property thus conferred by the statute clothes the husband with such ownership and authority as to warrant the allegation in a complaint of this kind, that he is the owner of the chose in action. Certainly the wife has 'no interest which will justify any interference on her part, nor has the defendant in such case any ground of complaint, for the plaintiff is the owner of a moiety and so far as the right of prosecuting the action is concerned, he is in effect the absolute .owner of the entirety.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reade v. de Lea