Ballard v. Noaks
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Error to Washington Circuit Court. This was an action of trespass, commenced by Jesse JVoaks against Thomas B. Ballard, John Hill, James Mitchell, Alfred Bryan, and Daniel Thomison, in Washington Circuit Court. The first count in the declaration, was for entering the plaintiff's tanyard, tearing up and damaging the vats, taking out hides, trampling them in the mud, &c., and seizing and carrying away to their own use 208 sides of leather.
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Error to Washington Circuit Court. This was an action of trespass, commenced by Jesse JVoaks against Thomas B. Ballard, John Hill, James Mitchell, Alfred Bryan, and Daniel Thomison, in Washington Circuit Court. The first count in the declaration, was for entering the plaintiff's tanyard, tearing up and damaging the vats, taking out hides, trampling them in the mud, &c., and seizing and carrying away to their own use 208 sides of leather. The second count was simply for seizing and carrying away 208 sides of leather. The third count was for a common assault and battery. The fourth count was…
1Opinion of the CourtLacy, Judge
Before we proceed to examine and determine the questions of law and of evidence that are raised on the assignment of errors, it becomes necessary to slate such parts and so much of the testimony, as is applicable to the case now under consideration.
A short time previous to the first day of March, A. D. 1838, Jesse Noaks, the plaintiff in the action, whom the proof shows is a tanner by trade, represented himself as the lawfully constituted agent of Thomas B. Ballard, for the purpose of purchasing raw hides from one Seborn Hill. Thereupon, Hill sold and delivered to him a quantity of raw hides,…
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