Norton v. Doolittle
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Replevin, for a yoke of cattle, ox-sled, yoke, and other articles of personal property used with the cattle, attached by the defendant as the property of one Seth E. Frost. The following facts were found by the superior court. The plaintiff, on the 27th of December, 1860, purchased of Seth E. Frost the articles described in the declaration.
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Replevin, for a yoke of cattle, ox-sled, yoke, and other articles of personal property used with the cattle, attached by the defendant as the property of one Seth E. Frost. The following facts were found by the superior court. The plaintiff, on the 27th of December, 1860, purchased of Seth E. Frost the articles described in the declaration. The sale was made in good faith, upon a fair consideration, and the articles were delivered by Frost to the plaintiff at his house in the town of Bristol, which delivery, the plaintiff said, was in order, to make the sale valid. Within a day or two after…
1Opinion of the CourtButler, J.
In this case judgment must be advised for the defendant. In all its material features it is like the case of Crouch v. Carrier, 16 Conn., 505, as will be readily seen by comparing them.
First, it is analogous in respect to the ownership, use, and possession before the sale.
In this case, as in that, a son living in a part of the same house and working on the same farm with his father, purchased a pair of cattle and took them upon the farm, where they were kept and used in cultivating it until attached as the property of the son. Here the father was the lessee of the farm, and the son was in…
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