Hitchcock v. Holmes
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Trespass de bonis asportatis; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of New Haven County, and tried to the court, on the general issue, with notice that the property was taken on an attachment by the defendant as an officer, before Peek, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and motion for a new trial by the defendant. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
In February, 1875, the defendant as a constable of the town of New Haven, upon a writ of attachment issued in an action of assumpsit against the present plaintiff in favor of a creditor, attached and took into his possession the following articles of household furniture belonging to the plaintiff, viz., four sets of lace curtains, with tassels, suspended from cornices of black walnut, all of the value of $172; one pier glass, with base, of the value of $125; and one clock, with glass globe over it, of the value of $60.
For such taking the plaintiff has instituted this action of trespass…
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