Hayford v. Wentworth
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Exceptions by defendant. Sustained. Trespass on the case for removing and carrying away from the plaintiff’s premises a water closet bowl.
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Exceptions by defendant. Sustained. Trespass on the case for removing and carrying away from the plaintiff’s premises a water closet bowl. The evidence showed that on January 8th, 1897, upon an order of one Newcomb, then having a desk, assisted by a female stenographer, in the office described in the plaintiff’s writ, occupied by the defendant and Judge Nose, and under their advice, they paying one-third each therefor, a skilled plumber put in a soil pipe and set up a “wash-down syphon water closet,” in a small closet, a part of the occupied premises, into which the Holly water had previously…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
Under what circumstances articles once chattels lose them character ás chattels and become merged into realty, has been a somewhat troublesome question, decided differently by different courts, and differently by the same court at different periods. The trend of judicial opinion, however, has been away from a. tendency toward merger, till now there is tendency toward non merger. Without taking space here to trace the steps in this development of the law in such cases (a task which has been well done in some of the opinions below cited) it is sufficient to say, that courts now very generally…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Voorhees v. . McGinnisNew York Court of Appeals · 1872
- Turner v. WentworthMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1876
- Guthrie v. JonesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1871
- Langston v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1892
- Towne v. FiskeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1879
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3Cited by12 opinions
- Bangor-Hydro Electric Company v. JohnsonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1967
- Shipler v. Potomac Copper Co.Montana Supreme Court · 1923
- Hartford National Bank & Trust Co. v. HarveySupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1980
- Sutton v. FrostSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1981
- General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. Lyford (In Re Lyford)United States Bankruptcy Court, D. Maine · 1982
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