Parker v. Hall
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions. Trespass de bonis, tried in the Superior Court for this county, at the September term thereof, 1868. The case was tried by Goddard, J., without the intervention of a jury. The bond in the replevin suit mentioned, was made to Jonathan Dow instead of George W. Parker.
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On Exceptions. Trespass de bonis, tried in the Superior Court for this county, at the September term thereof, 1868. The case was tried by Goddard, J., without the intervention of a jury. The bond in the replevin suit mentioned, was made to Jonathan Dow instead of George W. Parker. The Judge ruled that this action is maintainable, and ordered judgment for the plaintiff for the value of the piano and costs; and the defendant alleged exceptions, and thereupon the case was duly certified to the Chief Justice of this Court, in accordance with c. 151, of Public Laws of 1868. The remaining facts…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
This is an action of trespass for taking and carrying away a piano alleged to be the property of the plaintiff.
The plaintiff, sheriff of the county of Cumberland, having a writ Jonathan Dow v. James A. McNab, on the 4th Nov. 1865, attached the piano in controversy as the property of the defendant McNab, and made return thereof on the writ.
The piano, the case finds, was the property of Caroline A. McNab. The defendant, a coroner of this county, after the attachment, took the piano on a replevin writ in favor of Caroline A. McNab against George W. Parker, and made return thereon that he had…
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