Spencer v. Broughton
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action of replevin, brought before a justice of the peace and thence by the defendant’s appeal to the Court of Common Pleas in New London County, where the plaintiff’s motion to erase the cause from the docket and his plea to the jurisdiction were overruled (Noyes, Ji), and the cause was afterward tried to the court; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
This action was originally brought before a justice of the peace to recover possession of a cash register and its contents, of the alleged value of $75, claimed to be the property of the plaintiff and to have been unlawfully detained by the defendant, under the following circumstances : —
In the fall of 1900, H. Jerome Spencer borrowed of the plaintiff, his mother, $500, with which he purchased the stock and fixtures — including said cash register — of a meat-market, thereafter conducted by him in the village of Mystic, for a short time under his own name and afterwards, and at the time of the…
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