Jennings v. Prentice

In the court below Prentice was plaintiff and sought to recover from Jennings the value of certain liquors which Jennings had taken from his possession. When their respective claims to the liquors were disclosed, it appeared that Prentice claimed the liquors under a general assignment- made to him by one Bullard for the benefit of his creditors, and that Jennings was a constable, and had levied upon the liquors by virtue of certain executions against Bullard and under a claim that the assignment was fraudulent and void.

1. . Prentice was a witness on his own behalf, and on cross-examination…