Lyman v. James
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover and Trespass for an automobile. Plea, the general issue, and notice of justification as an officer serving a writ of attachment. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1911, Chittenden County, Butler, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the defendant. The plaintiff excepted. The opinion sufficiently states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
The suit is for the taking and conversion of an automobile which the plaintiff claimed to own. The defendant justifies under a writ of attachment in favor of one B. B. Perkins. The writ commanded the officer’to attach the property of the “Hill Storage & Implement Co., a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Vermont with its principal office at Burlington.” The defendant attached the automobile as the property of “the within named defendants, the Hill Storage and Implement Co.” Perkins, the plaintiff in this writ, was a creditor of one Wm. H. Hill,…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Sawyer v. New York State Clothing Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1886
- Halbert v. SouleSupreme Court of Vermont · 1885
3Cited by1 opinion
- Lyman v. JamesSupreme Court of Vermont · 1914