Standard Horseshoe Co. v. O'Brien

At the trial the plaintiff’s fifth prayer, which was granted,asked the Court to rule that “ If the Court sitting as a jury shall find from the evidence that when the defendant O’Brien bought from the plaintiff the goods replevied in this case (if it shall so find) or similar goods greater in amount than those replevied, he said O’Brien was insolvent, and knew that he was insolvent and had no reasonable expectation of paying for the goods purchased then the verdict of the Court so sitting must be for the plaintiff, even though the Court may find that the goods so bought as aforesaid were so…