Beach v. Abbott
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an action of assumpsit upon a promise of the defendants to redeliver to the plaintiff certain goods and chattels on demand. A yerdict was returned in favor of the defendants, subject to the opinion of this Court on the following case.
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This was an action of assumpsit upon a promise of the defendants to redeliver to the plaintiff certain goods and chattels on demand. A yerdict was returned in favor of the defendants, subject to the opinion of this Court on the following case. The property in question belonged to one Josiah Abbott, and was attached while in bis possession, on the 9th day of April, 1829, by the plaintiff, who was a deputy sheriff on a writ of attachment in favor of one Heath against Abbott; the property being exposed, and turned out for attachment, to the plaintiff, by James Steele, Esq., attorney of Heath.…
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court. — This is art action brought by the plaintiff, to recover of the defendants on their contract to deliver to him on demand certain articles of personal property, which they had received of him. It appears that the plaintiff, as deputy sheriff, had attached the property in question, at the suit of one Heath against Josiah Abbott; that the property was turned out to him by Mr. Steele, the attorney of Heath, and was delivered to the defendants, who executed the receipt on which this action was brought, and permitted the same to go back into the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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