Dudley v. Deming
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Replevin for two horses attached by the defendants as the property of one Everett E. Dudley,’ brought to the superior court in Hartford county, and tried on a plea denying the title of the plaintiff, the issue being closed to the court, before Carpenter, J. The following facts were found by the court. The plaintiff bought, in the year 1887, for the benefit of his parents, a farm in Bloomfield, which he still owns.
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Replevin for two horses attached by the defendants as the property of one Everett E. Dudley,’ brought to the superior court in Hartford county, and tried on a plea denying the title of the plaintiff, the issue being closed to the court, before Carpenter, J. The following facts were found by the court. The plaintiff bought, in the year 1887, for the benefit of his parents, a farm in Bloomfield, which he still owns. At the time of the purchase his parents, and shortly after his brother Everett Dudley, went to live there. In consideration of the use of the farm and the products therefrom Everett…
1Opinion of the CourtButler, J.
This is an action of replevin for two horses. The issue is made by .a plea in bar, which is substantially a denial of the plaintiff’s title. Whether or not the plaintiff had title, is the only question legitimately upon the record. Whether or not the horses were so the property of Edward Dudley tliat they could be attached and holden by his creditors, and all the facts in that connection, are immaterial except as they bear upon the one legitimate question, whether the plaintiff had title or not.
Edward Dudley at one time owned the horses, and, prior *173to the attachment, there was a transaction…
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