Neal v. Hanson
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions to the ruling of Lane, J., of the superior court for this county. Trover for a promissory note dated Jan. 24, 1872, signed by the plaintiff and made payable to the defendant, in the sum of forty-eight dollars and twenty-eight cents. To the declaration, the defendant filed a general demurrer, which was joined.
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On exceptions to the ruling of Lane, J., of the superior court for this county. Trover for a promissory note dated Jan. 24, 1872, signed by the plaintiff and made payable to the defendant, in the sum of forty-eight dollars and twenty-eight cents. To the declaration, the defendant filed a general demurrer, which was joined. The judge sustained the demurrer, and adjudged the declaration bad; whereupon the plaintiff alleged exceptions. 1. To maintain trover, property in the plaintiff, and conversion by the defendant, must be proved. 1 Chit, on PL 170. It is confined to the conversion of goods…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, C. J.
This is an action of trover for a promissory note. The declaration is in these words: ‘ For that whereas the said plaintiff, on the 24th day of January, 1872, at said Portland, was possessed of a certain promissory note, dated the 24th day of said January, signed by said John Neal, and payable on demand to the said defendant in the sum of forty-eight dollars and twenty-eight cents; and being so thereof possessed, thereafterwards, on the same day, casually lost the said note above described, which there*86afterwards, on the same day, came into the possession of the said Hanson by finding. Yet the…
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