Hutchinson v. Chadbourne
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Wells, J., presiding. Trespass against the sheriff, for the act of his deputy ill attaching a stock of goods on June 13, 1851. The officer justified the attachment of the goods as the property of one Charles W. Boothby, against whom he held several writs for service.
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On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Wells, J., presiding. Trespass against the sheriff, for the act of his deputy ill attaching a stock of goods on June 13, 1851. The officer justified the attachment of the goods as the property of one Charles W. Boothby, against whom he held several writs for service. The plaintiff introduced evidence to show, that he purchased the goods of Boothby on June 2, 1851. The defendant contended, that that purchase was fraudulent and void as to the creditors of Boothby. As a part of his evidence tending to show that fraud, the defendant proposed to prove that Boothby…
1Opinion of the CourtSiiepley, C. J.
— The action is trespass commenced against the defendant as sheriff for the acts of one of his deputies, in making an attachment of a stock of goods as the property of Charles W. Boothby, on June 13, 1851.
*192The plaintiff claimed the goods as a purchaser of them from Boothby on June 2, 1851. The defendant, acting for the attaching creditors of Boothby, alleged that purchase as against them to have been fraudulently made. To contribute to the proof of it he was permitted to read an office copy of a deed of real estate, conveyed on the same June 2, by Charles W. Boothby to Nathaniel T. Boothby;…
2Cited by1 opinion
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