Vincent v. Inhabitants of Nantucket
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This case was tried before Byington, J., in the court of common pleas, October term, 1852, who signed the following bill of exceptions: “ This is an action against the defendants to recover a sum of money expended by the plaintiff in defending a suit brought against the said Vincent by Hiram Folger, and for services rendered by him in so defending.
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This case was tried before Byington, J., in the court of common pleas, October term, 1852, who signed the following bill of exceptions: “ This is an action against the defendants to recover a sum of money expended by the plaintiff in defending a suit brought against the said Vincent by Hiram Folger, and for services rendered by him in so defending. The action was replevin of Folger’s cattle taken and impounded by Vincent, as field-driver of Nantucket, brought originally before a justice of the peace, and appealed to this court, and judgment rendered in favor of said Vincent, October term,…
1Opinion of the CourtMerrick, J.
This action is brought upon an alleged promise and undertaking of the defendants to indemnify, and save the plaintiff harmless, from the consequences of a suit commenced and prosecuted against him by one Hiram Folger. It appears, from the facts stated in the bill of exceptions, that the suit referred to was an action of replevin instituted by Folger, to regain possession of certain cattle belonging to him, which the present plaintiff, in his official capacity as a field-driver of the town of Nantucket, having found going at large therein contrary to law, had taken up and impounded in the…
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