Beers v. Lyon
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of trespass de bonis asportatis, for taking a quantity of hats and hat materials. The defendant pleaded the general issue, with notice that he should justify the taking, by virtue of writs of attachment, in favour of Samuel B. Peck and William A. Parsons, and also in favour of William B. Glover, against Julius Sanford, and the service of such writs, by him, the defendant, as a deputy sheriff.
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This was an action of trespass de bonis asportatis, for taking a quantity of hats and hat materials. The defendant pleaded the general issue, with notice that he should justify the taking, by virtue of writs of attachment, in favour of Samuel B. Peck and William A. Parsons, and also in favour of William B. Glover, against Julius Sanford, and the service of such writs, by him, the defendant, as a deputy sheriff. The cause was tried, at Fairfield, February term, 1852. There was much testimony on both sides, which was more or less conflicting. Among the facts which were either uncontroverted, or…
1Opinion of the CourtHinman, J.
The defendant, a deputy sheriff, had writs of attachment in his hands, against Julius Sanford, and he attached, as said Sanford’s property, the goods in question. They consisted of hats, and hatting materials, and were found by the officer, at the manufactory where said Julius had been engaged in manufacturing hats: they were claimed however, by Josiah Sanford, the father of Julius, under an assignment made a few days previous to the attachment; and the question is, whether he can hold them against the attaching creditors of his son.
One point in the case is, whether Josiah Sanford’s…
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