Supples v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit for money had and received, brought to the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Fairfield, and tried on the general issue, closed to the court, before Brewster, J. Judgment for the plaintiff, and motion for a new trial by the defendant. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPark, J.
It appears by the motion in this case that one Sturges recovered judgment for costs against one Cannon, and afterwards assigned the judgment for a valuable consideration to the plaintiff. Execution was duly issued on the judgment, and placed in the hands of a deputy sheriff of Fairfield County to 'serve, who collected the amount of the judgment without a levy of the same. While the officer was holding the money for the plaintiff, the defendant unlawfully took it from his possession, and has ever since retained it. The defendant offered no evidence on the trial.
From these facts it would seem…
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