Donohue v. Maloney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Replevin for a quantity of liquors; brought to the Court of Common Pleas of Hartford County, and tried to the court before Calhoun, J. Facts found and judgment for a return of the liquors to the defendants. Motion in error by the plaintiffs. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
On July 15th, 1880, John Cronin was keeping a retail liquor saloon in Hartford apparently on his own account, but in fact as the agent of the plaintiffs, who then and there held intoxicating liquors contrary to law for the purpose of selling the same in violation of law. On that day the defendants, having an execution against Cronin, caused it to be levied on the liquors; three days later these were returned to them on their complaint in replevin; that complaint came to the Court of Common Pleas; that court held that the liquors were a nuisance, and that the plaintiffs could not maintain…
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- Oviatt v. PondSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1861
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- Schlesinger v. ChapmanSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1885