Hough v. Dickinson
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Emmet. (Ramsdell, J.) Trespass. Defendants bring error. Every man is held to intend the natural and necessary consequences of his acts, and in cases of frand this presumption has always been held conclusive: Wait on Fraud, Conv. §§ 7-10, and Kirby v. Ingersoll 1 Doug.
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Error to Emmet. (Ramsdell, J.) Trespass. Defendants bring error. Every man is held to intend the natural and necessary consequences of his acts, and in cases of frand this presumption has always been held conclusive: Wait on Fraud, Conv. §§ 7-10, and Kirby v. Ingersoll 1 Doug. (Mich.), 478, 493. Possession of property unlawfully taken gives the right to sue for the trespass: Cooley on Torts 445 ; 1 Hilliard on Torts 493 ; Hoffman v. Harrington 44 Mich. 183 ; a sale to a bona fide purchaser is not invalidated by the fact that the vendor made it with intent to hinder and defraud creditors :…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
The plaintiffs in this case are merchants doing business in Cross Village, in the county of Emmet, and the defendants were the sheriff and two of his deputies in said county, in January,'1882, at the time the grievances complained of are alleged to have been committed. The suit is trespass, brought by the plaintiffs to recover of the defendants the value of a stock of goods levied upon by the sheriff while in the hands of the plaintiffs, upon an attachment issued out of the court against the goods and property of Pier & "Wagley, another firm of the same village. Plaintiffs claim that they…
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