Hovey v. Bell
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions by defendant. Exceptions overruled. This is an action in assumpsit on an account annexed to recover the sum of $222.00 and interest from date of demand, for 222 barrels of potatoes claimed to have been sold and delivered to the defendant at $1.00 per barrel. At the April term of Court, the case was referred to Hon. A. M. Spear under a rule of Court.
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On exceptions by defendant. Exceptions overruled. This is an action in assumpsit on an account annexed to recover the sum of $222.00 and interest from date of demand, for 222 barrels of potatoes claimed to have been sold and delivered to the defendant at $1.00 per barrel. At the April term of Court, the case was referred to Hon. A. M. Spear under a rule of Court. The referee found and ruled as matter of law, upon the facts found that plaintiff was entitled to recover two hundred and forty-five dollars and interest from date of writ, and upon this ruling reserved the right of exception to…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilbrook, J.
This is an action in assumpsit on the following account annexed:
Burnham J. Bell, to Ivory A. Hovey, Dr.
1911, June 1, To 222 barrels of potatoes
Sold and delivered you at $1.00 per bbl. $222.00
To interest since due and demanded 23.00
$245.00
The cause was sent to a referee who reported as follows:
“In this case I find as a matter of fact that Ivory A. Hovey, the plaintiff, was a bona fide lessee of Ulmont H. Hovey, of the five acres which he claims to have planted to potatoes upon the Pennington farm, and that the two hundred barrels of potatoes harvested by him therefrom, were his property, as…
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