Emmons v. Westfield Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tout for the conversion of three hundred and twenty-five carpincho skins. At the trial in the superior court, before Vose, J., it appeared that the Westfield Bank recovered judgment against Levi Holcomb of Granby, Connecticut, in an action in the superior court for Hampden, on a promissory note of Holcomb dated September 10, 1860; and that these skins, having been attached on the writ in that action, in December 1864, as Holcomb’s property, were sold, in 1865, for four…
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Tout for the conversion of three hundred and twenty-five carpincho skins. At the trial in the superior court, before Vose, J., it appeared that the Westfield Bank recovered judgment against Levi Holcomb of Granby, Connecticut, in an action in the superior court for Hampden, on a promissory note of Holcomb dated September 10, 1860; and that these skins, having been attached on the writ in that action, in December 1864, as Holcomb’s property, were sold, in 1865, for four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents, in partial satisfaction of the execution, by Timothy M. Cooley, a deputy…
1Opinion of the Court
Foster, J.*
The learned judge who presided at the trial was, in the opinion of the court, entirely right in refusing the several prayers for instructions proffered by the defendants, and the rulings given by him were unobjectionable. If we were to assume, which we do not, that the instructions are fully stated in the exceptions and that they were not so illustrated and applied to the facts as to guide and assist the deliberations of the jury, they would certainly be open to the objection of being meagre and unsatisfactory. But they are a correct statement of the law, and appear to have been…
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