Handy v. Canning
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Replevin of a piano. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Hammond, J., the jury returned a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions! The material facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
This is an action of replevin to recover possession of a piano. The plaintiff at the. time of the trial was not quite eighteen years old. To prove her title, she testified that the piano was a birthday gift to her from the defendant, her father, ten years before. The defendant put in evidence, without objection, to the effect that the plaintiff had repeatedly stated, in the presence of witnesses, that she did not understand the piano was hers, that it was not hers. The defendant also put in evidence a mortgage of the piano made by him, and it was shown that the plaintiff had some knowledge of…
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