Hatch v. Lincoln
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This action was decided for the plaintiff by the court of common pleas upon an agreed statement of facts, the material portion of which appears in the opinion of this court, to which the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, C. J.
Trespass to recover the value of one hundred barrels of flour, attached by one of the deputies of the defendant, the late sheriff of Worcester, and alleged by the plaintiff to be his property. Many of the facts are the same as in the case of Hatch v. Bayley, decided at the present term, ante, p. 27. The flour was attached at Worcester as the property of J. B. Hoogs, in the Western Railroad cars, on its way from Albany to Boston. The question is, whether the title to this flour had so far vested in the plaintiff at the time of the attachment, that it could not be attached and held as the…
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