Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward
Superior Court of New Hampshire
THIS was an action of trover, for sundry articles alleged to be the property of the plaintiffs. The cause was submitted to the decision of the court upon a statement of facts; but as the facts are all stated in the opinion of the court, it is deemed unnecessary to detail them here.
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THIS was an action of trover, for sundry articles alleged to be the property of the plaintiffs. The cause was submitted to the decision of the court upon a statement of facts; but as the facts are all stated in the opinion of the court, it is deemed unnecessary to detail them here. And it was agreed that, if either party should desire it, the statement of facts should be turned into a special verdict, in order that the case might be carried to the supreme court of the United States upon a writ of error. The cause was argued in this county, at the last term of this court, by Mason and Smith…
1Opinion of the Court
RichaRDson, G. J.
This cause, which is trover for sundry articles alleged to be the property of the plaintiffs, comes before the court upon a statement of facts, in which it is agreed by the parties that the trustees of Dartmouth College were a body corporate, duly organized under a charter bearing date December 13, 1769 ; that the several articles mentioned in the writ were the property of that body corporate, and that before the commencement of this action the said articles being in the possession of the defendant, he refused, although duly, requested, to deliver them to the plaintiffs. Upon…
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