Supples v. Cannon
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit for money had and received; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of Fairfield County, and tried to the jury on the general issue, with notice of a former adjudication of the same matter between the parties, before DeForest, J. Yerdict for the plaintiff, and motion for a new trial by the defendant for error in the rulings and charge of the court. The case is fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
In 1864 one Patchen obtained a judgment in the Superior Court for Fairfield County against Henry Supples, the present plaintiff, of which Charles Cannon, the present defendant, became the owner by purchase. On the 18th day of February, 1870, execution issued on this judgment, which on the 30th day of March, 1870, was placed in the hands of Alfred A. Heath, a deputy sheriff, for service, who on that day levied it upon a pair of oxen as the property of Supples, and by virtue thereof took the same into his possession. On the 1st day of April, 1870, Supples prayed out a writ of replevin, in which…
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