Stamford Bank v. Ferris
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was an action of assumpsit, to recover certain dividends on twenty shares of the stock of The Stamford Bank, brought by Joshua B. Ferris Esq. against that institution, before a justice of the peace, and appealed to the county court. There were three counts in the declaration ; the two first being special, and the third a general count for money had and received by the defendants to the plaintiff’s use.
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IN ERROR. This was an action of assumpsit, to recover certain dividends on twenty shares of the stock of The Stamford Bank, brought by Joshua B. Ferris Esq. against that institution, before a justice of the peace, and appealed to the county court. There were three counts in the declaration ; the two first being special, and the third a general count for money had and received by the defendants to the plaintiff’s use. The defendants pleaded the general issue ; on which the cause was tried before the county court of Fairfield county, December term, 1844. The plaintiff claimed title to the…
1Opinion of the CourtChurch, J.
Most of the objections to a recovery by the plaintiff below and to the ruling of the county court, we unanimously believe to be without legal support.
The stock levied upon, was well described, by the officer, in his return upon the. execution. He describes it as twenty shares of the capital stock of the Stamford Bank, being the property of the debtor in the execution, and as having been attached by virtue of the original writ of attachment in the suit. Shares of stock are owned by different persons, and thus only are distinguishable from each other; as the stock of A and the stock of B. A…
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