Dickinson v. Winchester
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was an action of assumpsit for the loss of a trunk and its contents. The trial was before Wells, C. J., in the court of common pleas. The evidence was conflicting, but tended, among other things, to prove the following state of facts: — The plaintiff, who resides in Vermont, made arrangements for his son, then of the age of nineteen years, to go to Mflwaukie (Wisconsin),there to reside as a clerk. The length of time he was expected to remain was uncertain.
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This was an action of assumpsit for the loss of a trunk and its contents. The trial was before Wells, C. J., in the court of common pleas. The evidence was conflicting, but tended, among other things, to prove the following state of facts: — The plaintiff, who resides in Vermont, made arrangements for his son, then of the age of nineteen years, to go to Mflwaukie (Wisconsin),there to reside as a clerk. The length of time he was expected to remain was uncertain. Previous to the departure of his son, the plaintiff furnished him with various articles of clothing and some books, &c., and about…
1Opinion of the CourtShaw, C. J.
This is a case of new impression, and it may perhaps be doubted, whether, upon the evidence, the verdict upon some of the grounds should not have been the other way. But it is not certain that we have a full report of the evidence, and our concern is only with the correctness of the instructions, under which the case went to the jury. We are of opinion, that the directions were right, except as to the clothes purchased by the son with the money furnished to him by the father, when the son left home, for general purposes, and without any specific directions to purchase clothes with it. Those…
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