Stout v. Watson
Oregon Supreme Court
Appeal from Wasco county: J. H. Bird, judge. This is an action of replevin to recover certain specific personal property alleged to be of the aggregate value of $1,834.96 and for $466 damages for the wrongful taking and detention thereof. The plaintiff recovered a verdict for $1,037.93 damages, upon which judgment was entered, from which the defendants have appealed.
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Appeal from Wasco county: J. H. Bird, judge. This is an action of replevin to recover certain specific personal property alleged to be of the aggregate value of $1,834.96 and for $466 damages for the wrongful taking and detention thereof. The plaintiff recovered a verdict for $1,037.93 damages, upon which judgment was entered, from which the defendants have appealed. The answer alleges in substance that the property in controversy at the time of said alleged taking was the property of T. A. Hudson and C. L. Kelsey, doing business as partners under the firm name of Hudson & Kelsey; that on the…
1Opinion of the CourtStrahan, J.
The only questions presented for review on this appeal, material to be noticed, are presented by the instructions which the defendant requested at the trial and which were refused by the court. The plaintiff testified without objection, among other things, as follows: I know all about the property described in the complaint; on October 22, 1887, it belonged to Hudson & Kelsey; it was sold to me October 22, 1887; I believe I owned it on October 24th; I came by it by bill of sale given by Hudson & Kelsey; the bill of sale is in writing; it was transferred to me on the twenty-second day of…
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