Central Maine Power Co. v. Maine Central Railroad
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions by plaintiff. This is an action of replevin to recover a certain quantity of copper junk, alleged in plaintiff’s writ to have been taken and detained by the defendant company at Fairfield, in the County of Somerset.
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On exceptions by plaintiff. This is an action of replevin to recover a certain quantity of copper junk, alleged in plaintiff’s writ to have been taken and detained by the defendant company at Fairfield, in the County of Somerset. The writ in said action was returned to and entered in the Superior Court at Augusta, in the County of Kennebec, on the first Tuesday of April, 1914. At the June term of said court, the defendant filed a motion to dismiss said action for want of jurisdiction. The judge of said Superior Court granted the motion, to which the plaintiff excepted. The case is stated in…
1Opinion of the CourtSavage, C. J.
Replevin for goods, which it was alleged were “taken and detained,” and “held” at Fairfield, in the county of Somerset. The writ was made returnable to the Superior Court for Kennebec County, and was answered to at the return term. At *104a later term, the defendant moved to dismiss the action, on the ground that the goods were detained in Somerset County and not in Kennebec County. The court granted the motion, and the case comes before us on the plaintiff's exceptions.
The plaintiff contends, first, that the action of replevin is properly a transitory action and may be brought in the county…
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