
    Lydia Dean versus Ebenezer Dean.
    The parties were married in 1824, and were divorced a mensa et thoro in 1826 by a decree of this Court, in which it was ordered, that all the real and personal property which came to the defendant by his marriage with the plaintiff, should be restored to her ; and she brought this action of trover for certain articles which were her property at that time, but of which a part had been consumed in the family of the plaintiff and defendant, and the residue sold before the divorce ; but the Court, without hearing the defendant’s counsel, said the decree could not operate on the articles con sumed or disposed of as above, and entered a nonsuit. (But see Dean v. Richmond, post, 461.)
    
      Chapin, for the plaintiff..
    
      Baylies and Cobb, for the defendant.
    
      
       See Revised Stat. c. 76, $ 28.
    
     