Steele v. Putney
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Assumpsit for goods sold and delivered, and for money had and received. The defendant justified as a deputy-sheriff. The whole of the evidence introduced at the trial, which was before Emery J. is spread upon tlie report of the case, as are also eight questions put to the jury to be answered, and the answers thereto. The case will be sufficiently understood from the opinion of the Court without putting down here an abstract of the facts.
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Assumpsit for goods sold and delivered, and for money had and received. The defendant justified as a deputy-sheriff. The whole of the evidence introduced at the trial, which was before Emery J. is spread upon tlie report of the case, as are also eight questions put to the jury to be answered, and the answers thereto. The case will be sufficiently understood from the opinion of the Court without putting down here an abstract of the facts. By consent of tbe parties a verdict was taken for the defendant, to be set aside, if in the opinion of the whole Court the action could be maintained. The…
1Opinion of the Court
The case was continued for advisement, and the opinion of the Court was afterwards drawn up by
Emery J.
Marked as this case is with singularities in the de-velopement of its merits, the finding of the jury has divested it of *329every thing which might at first seem to cast a shade about the interest which belonged to the plaintiffs. One of them, Gilbert,mA.o appears to be the principal mover in the affairs relating to this concern, on the 28th of October, 1836, introduced to Mr. Codman, an attorney and counsellor at law, Mr. Somers, one of the attaching creditors, and agent for the others,…
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- Fuller v. HoldenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1808
- Scrugham v. CarterNew York Supreme Court · 1834
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- Miller v. HamptonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1861