Olmsted v. Hoyt
Supreme Court of Connecticut
MOTION for a new tria!. This was an action of trover for two horses, two oxeD, , t , other personal property. The general issue was pleaded. On the trial, it was admitted by the defendants that . . they took and carried away the articles specified m the declaration.
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MOTION for a new tria!. This was an action of trover for two horses, two oxeD, , t , other personal property. The general issue was pleaded. On the trial, it was admitted by the defendants that . . they took and carried away the articles specified m the declaration. But they attempted to justify the taking by virtue of an attachment in the name of the defendant . Hoyt against Ebenezer Lockwood, which Joseph Lockwood, the other defendant, held as constable, and levied Upon the articles in question as the property of E. Lock- . ^ r i j wood. It was admitted by the plaintiff, that Hoyt was a…
1Opinion of the CourtTrumbut.l, J.
This is an action of trover brought by jYat/ian Olmsted against Stephen Hoyt and Joseph Lockwood, for taking sundry cattle and other articles, the property of the plaintiff, and converting them to their own use. Upon issue before the superior court, on the plea of not guilty, the verdict and judgment was in fa-vour of the defendants. It comes before us on a motion, for a new trial.
As the defendants acknowledged the taking of said articles as the property of one Ebenezer Lockwood, and contested the point only, whether the conveyance by him to the plaintiff was a legal and sufficient transfer,…
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