Livermore v. White
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
ON EXCEPTIONS from the superior court. These two actions depending upon the same facts were replevin •for certain sides of unfinished leather. The plaintiffs claim title ;as finders. The facts are stated in the opinion. There can be no doubt that the hides were placed in the vats by some one forty or fifty years a go, for the purpose of tanning, and with the intention to take them out when sufficiently tanned. Two vats were discovered by Livermore, and one by Richardson.
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ON EXCEPTIONS from the superior court. These two actions depending upon the same facts were replevin •for certain sides of unfinished leather. The plaintiffs claim title ;as finders. The facts are stated in the opinion. There can be no doubt that the hides were placed in the vats by some one forty or fifty years a go, for the purpose of tanning, and with the intention to take them out when sufficiently tanned. Two vats were discovered by Livermore, and one by Richardson. There is no evidence that there was a person living, ¡at the time of the discovery, who knew of the existence of this…
1Opinion of the CourtAppletoN, C. J.
This is an action of replevin for certain hides of tanned leather. The plaintiff’s only title is as finder of them as lost goods. The verdict being against him, exceptions were duly filed to the rulings of the presiding justice, which have been very elaborately and ably argued.
It is in proof that in 1840, Edward Southwick was then owning and carrying on a large tannery, containing seven hundred and eleven vats of which the vats in question were part; that he sold the tannery to Southwick and Weeks who occupied a portion of the vats, not occupying the outside vats ; that Edward Southwick died…
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