Chapman v. Shepard
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Trover for sundry bags of meal; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried, on the general issue closed to the court, before Sanford, J. The declaration contained three counts, one for three hundred and sixty bags of meal owned by the plaintiff in severalty, one for seven hundred and twenty bags owned by the plaintiff and one John T. Gill in common, and one for eleven hundred bags owned by the plaintiff, the defendant and the said Gill in common.
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Trover for sundry bags of meal; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried, on the general issue closed to the court, before Sanford, J. The declaration contained three counts, one for three hundred and sixty bags of meal owned by the plaintiff in severalty, one for seven hundred and twenty bags owned by the plaintiff and one John T. Gill in common, and one for eleven hundred bags owned by the plaintiff, the defendant and the said Gill in common. The court found the following facts :— The defendant, in the month of November, 1866, purchased in Albany, in the state of New…
1Opinion of the CourtSevmoue, J.
The plaintiff brought his action of trover in three counts :—
1st. For the alleged conversion of three hundred and eighty bags of meal belonging to the plaintiff.
2d. For the conversion of seven hundred and fifty bags of meal belonging to the plaintiff and defendant as tenants in common.
3d. Alleging the meal to belong to the plaintiff and defendant and one John T. Gill as tenants in common.
It appears from the finding of facts by the judge who tried the cause in the Superior Court, that the defendant, being the owner of a lot of bags of meal consisting of between five and six hundred, on the…
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