Legal Opinion

Canning v. Owen

Supreme Court of Rhode Island

Decided April 27, 1901PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Trover. The facts appear in the opinion.

1Opinion of the CourtTillinghast, J.

One of the grounds of the defendants’ petition for a new trial is that the trial court allowed testimony to be introduced by the plaintiff as to the conversion by defendants of certain electric-light fixtures which had been attached to the Lake View Hotel property by plaintiff, while she owned the same, and which fixtures, at the time they were so attached, were intended by the plaintiff to be and remain a part of the real estate.- She did not detach or attempt to detach said fixtures until some time -after the hotel property was sold under the mortgage thereof given by her.(1) The question…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. Hutchins v. MastersonTexas Supreme Court · 1877
  2. McKeage v. . Hanover Fire Insurance Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1880
  3. National Bank v. NorthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
  4. Pea v. PeaIndiana Supreme Court · 1871
  5. McConnell v. BloodMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1877

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3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Thomsen v. CullenWisconsin Supreme Court · 1928
  2. Prospecting Unlimited, Inc. v. NorbergSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1977
  3. Stone v. SuckleSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1920
  4. Alwes v. RichheimerSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1932
  5. Klocke v. TroskeNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1928

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