Clark v. Whitaker
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of trover, for certain articles of household furniture, brought by Griffin Clark, against Horace Whitaker, Henry L. Clark, Amasa C. Hall and Edmund, Perkins. A new trial having been granted in this cause, pursuant to the decision in 18 Conn.
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This was an action of trover, for certain articles of household furniture, brought by Griffin Clark, against Horace Whitaker, Henry L. Clark, Amasa C. Hall and Edmund, Perkins. A new trial having been granted in this cause, pursuant to the decision in 18 Conn. R. 543. 550. it was tried again, at Brooklyn, October term, 1847, before Storrs, J. The prominent questions of fact, on this trial, as on the former, were, whether there had been a conversion of the plaintiff’s property; and if so, whether the defendants were severally chargeable with it; and what was the value of the property…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
Those parts of the charge to the jury to which the present defendants except, involve only the effect of a want of sufficient notice to the plaintiff to appear before the justices, and be heard relative to the appointment of an overseer over him, and of the neglect of such overseer to deposit his inventory in the town clerk’s office within the time required by law, so far as the defendant Perkins alone, and those who acted under him and by his authority, were concerned. But he, having been acquitted, by the jury, has no occasion to have the verdict disturbed. And the other defendants did not…
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