Betton v. Valentine
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island
[At law. Action of trover by George C. Betton, assignee in insolvency of Macy, against David M. Valentine. Verdict was given for defendant.] This was a motion by the plaintiff for a new trial. The facts appear in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
CURTIS, Circuit Justice.
The plaintiff brought an action of trover against the defendant, to recover damages for the conversion of a quantity of merchandise in a shop in the city of Providence. He proved that the goods had belonged to one Macy, who, on his own petition, was decreed to be an insolvent debtor, under the laws of the state of Massachusetts, and that the plaintiff, having ljeen duly appointed his assignee, the commissioner of insolvency, having jurisdiction of the matter under the laws of that state, pursuant to the authority conferred upon him by those laws, conveyed to the…
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