Connor v. Squiers
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover, with a count in trespass. The case was referred. The facts sufficiently appear in the syllabus. The court, at the September Term, 1875, Ross, J. presiding, rendered judgment on the report for plaintiff. Exceptions by defendant. No question can arise as to Mrs. Dickerman’s right to sell the drawers at the time she did; nor as to defendant’s right at the time of the sale to take them as they were, and where they were.
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Trover, with a count in trespass. The case was referred. The facts sufficiently appear in the syllabus. The court, at the September Term, 1875, Ross, J. presiding, rendered judgment on the report for plaintiff. Exceptions by defendant. No question can arise as to Mrs. Dickerman’s right to sell the drawers at the time she did; nor as to defendant’s right at the time of the sale to take them as they were, and where they were. And if defendant acquired a complete title to them, he did not lose it by leaving them in possession of the vendor ; for no change of possession was necessary, to render…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Barrett, J.
The language used in Peck v. Batchelder, 40 Vt. 233, is in direct point in this case, viz., “ if the articles had become and were at the time a part of the house conveyed,” they were fixtures. The drawers in question, and the frame for them, constituted the finish of the finished • side of the chamber. The frame and the drawers together constituted an entire, completed thing ; as much so as the body and the drawers of a bureau constitute an entire and completed thing.
*683There is no doubt that Mrs. Dickerman had the right to sell the drawers…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Peck v. BatchelderSupreme Court of Vermont · 1867
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