Apong v. Marks

1 Haw. 50
CourtHawaii Supreme Court
DecidedJuly 15, 1851
StatusPublished

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Apong v. Marks, 1 Haw. 50 (haw 1851).

Opinion

Chief Justice Lee

charged the jury that the husband is liable for all torts of the wife committed during coverture, and that, if they found Julia Marks to be a married woman, she could not be made subject to damages in this suit, unless her husband were made a joint party to the same. That, in the event of their finding her a/eme covert, they could only render a verdict against Henry Marks.

The jury, after an absence of half an hour, returned into Court, and stated that they found Julia Marks to be a married woman, and rendered their verdict against the defendant Henry Marks in the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars.

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