Spicer v. Waters
New York Supreme Court
THIS action was brought to recover the value of lumber, alleged to have been illegally converted to the use of the defendant.
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THIS action was brought to recover the value of lumber, alleged to have been illegally converted to the use of the defendant. The answer alleges that Cyrus W. Pratt, on the 15th day of November, 1861, recovered judgment against one Bichard Carter, in this court, for the sum of $849.73, and on the 4th of February, 1862, said Pratt recovered another judgment, against the same defendant, in this court, for $1,062.02. On the 23d of December, 1861, Boyal D. Strickland recovered a judgment against the said Carter for $292.05. Executions were issued on these judgments, to the defendant, then being…
1Opinion of the CourtMullin, J.
The first and most important question presented by this appeal is, whether the plaintiffs were bona fide purchasers of the logs from which the lumber in question was made. If the learned judge was wrong in holding the plaintiffs to be such purchasers, there must be a new trial, as the whole of the defence was excluded, because the defendant did not throw over the bonafides of the-plaintiffs sufficient suspicion to make it either necessary or proper to submit the question to the jury.
A bona fide purchaser is" one who buys property of another without notice that some third person has a right…
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