Talcott v. Belding

Barbour, Ch. J.

This was an action, as in replevin, “for the recovery of two hundred dozen shirts and “drawers, or thereabouts, and forty dozen jackets, more “or less,” alleged in the complaint to be owned by the ■plaintiff, and wrongfully detained from him by the defendant, to plaintiff’s damage $3,000. The answer contained a full denial.

Upon the trial it appeared that, some time prior to the bringing of the suit, J. P. Browner & Co. obtained from the plaintiff, by means of false and fraudulent representations, sundry articles of “hosiery and underwear,” amounting to $2,907.17, and that,…