ARRINGTON v. ARRINGTON

In a gift of personal chattels a symbolical delivery is sufficient.

SPENCER, J.,

ruled that delivery of possession in such cases is principally in order to identify the property, and that it might also answer the purposes of notoriety; but when the identity of them could be proven, the gift was good without delivery. Verdict for the plaintiff accordingly. If there had been two boys of the same name, a delivery might have been necessary; but as there was only one, the proof of identity was easy.