Getchell v. Page
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On report. Action of trespass de bonis asportatis brought in the Superior Court, Kennebec County. Writ dated August 10, 1906. The declaration in the writ is as follows : "In a plea of trespass, for that the said defendants, at said Augusta, on the thirteenth day of June, A. D., 1906, with force and arms took and carried away the goods and chattels, to wit, twelve bags containing cork stoppers of the value of twenty dollars, three boxes containing cork stoppers of the value…
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On report. Action of trespass de bonis asportatis brought in the Superior Court, Kennebec County. Writ dated August 10, 1906. The declaration in the writ is as follows : "In a plea of trespass, for that the said defendants, at said Augusta, on the thirteenth day of June, A. D., 1906, with force and arms took and carried away the goods and chattels, to wit, twelve bags containing cork stoppers of the value of twenty dollars, three boxes containing cork stoppers of the value of ten dollars, one pint copper funnel of the value of one dollar, one-half pint copper funnél of the value of…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, J.
This is an action of trespass de bonis asportatis. The defendants admit the taking of the articles described, and seek to justify as Deputy Enforcement Commissioners appointed under the provisions of chapter 92 of the Public Laws of 1905, relating to the better enforcement of the laws against the manufacture and sale *390of intoxicating liquors. They claim that they were acting under and by virtue of a warrant properly issued for the search and seizure of intoxicating liquors under the statutes of this State prohibiting the unlawful sale or keeping of such liquors, and were authorized to take and…
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