Jones v. Metcalf

The plaintiff had judgment in the court below on the verdict of a jury. The defendant brings the case here on exceptions saved to the exclusion of certain evidence and to certain portions of the court’s charge. The exceptions all grow out of a single question relating to the right of a county fish and game warden to seize and detain for evidentiary purposes a trap illegally set and a wild animal caught therein. In the circumstances the exceptions do not require separate treatment.

In October, 1919, the plaintiff set a bear trap in the “Sherwin pasture” in the town of Stratton, to which a chain…