Aiken v. Kennison
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover for the conversion of a horse. Trial by jury, Boss, J., presiding. Yerdict for the defendant. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that on the defendant’s request, he, plaintiff, told him he would purchase a horse for him, and that defendant might have the horse when he paid for it; that defendant consented, and that thereupon he gave him the following writing to take to one Miller: “Plin Miller: “ If you trade with E. A. Kennison for a horse, I will pay you for…
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Trover for the conversion of a horse. Trial by jury, Boss, J., presiding. Yerdict for the defendant. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that on the defendant’s request, he, plaintiff, told him he would purchase a horse for him, and that defendant might have the horse when he paid for it; that defendant consented, and that thereupon he gave him the following writing to take to one Miller: “Plin Miller: “ If you trade with E. A. Kennison for a horse, I will pay you for him about the middle of this month. (Signed) “G. W. Aiken.” On the same day, January 9, 1883, the defendant took the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Eowell, J.
Phelps, Dodge & Co. v. Conant & Co., 30 Vt. 277, is sufficient authority against the first exception; but as “ frequent recurrence to fundamental principles” is as necessary in law as in liberty, we will advert to the general rule under which such evidence is excluded.
The maxim that a transaction between two persons ought not to operate to the disadvantage of a third, though somewhat obscure in its application, because it does not show how unconnected transactions should be supposed to be relevant to each other, and though failing in its…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Phelps, Dodge & Co. v. C. B. Conant & Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1858
- Richardson v. Royalton & Woodstock Turnpike Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1834
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