Rogers v. Thomas
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of trover, for a quantity of lumber; tried at New-London, on the general issue, September term, 1849. The plaintiffs claimed to have proved, that they sold the lumber described in the declaration, to Edward C. Moulton, a house carpenter and builder, who purchased it to be used in the construction of an academy at Danielsonville, on which he was engaged ; that the lumber was to be transported thither on the Norwich and Worcester Rail-road, and was taken…
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This was an action of trover, for a quantity of lumber; tried at New-London, on the general issue, September term, 1849. The plaintiffs claimed to have proved, that they sold the lumber described in the declaration, to Edward C. Moulton, a house carpenter and builder, who purchased it to be used in the construction of an academy at Danielsonville, on which he was engaged ; that the lumber was to be transported thither on the Norwich and Worcester Rail-road, and was taken from the lumber-yard of the plaintiffs in Norwich to the rail-road depot in that city, by a carman employed by the…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
The question here presented, is, whether the plaintiffs had a right to exercise the right of stoppage in tran-as to the goods for the conversion of which this action is brought: if they had, there is no doubt that, by doing so, they acquired a title to the property, which would prevail against the attachment of it, by the defendant, on behalf of a creditor of the vendee.
It is material to observe, that this case is quite distinguishable from those cases in which a vendor of goods retains them, in consequence of a fraud having been practised by the vendee, in the purchase of them; and also from…
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