Price v. Furman
Supreme Court of Vermont
Infancy. Trover for a harness and a five dollar bill. Plea, the general issue; trial by the court, March Term, 1854,— Pierpoust, J., presiding.
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Infancy. Trover for a harness and a five dollar bill. Plea, the general issue; trial by the court, March Term, 1854,— Pierpoust, J., presiding. The plaintiff’s testimony tended to prove that about the 1st of September, 1851, he let the defendant have a harness and a five bill, which at the trial could not be described or identified, in exchange for a mare of the defendant’s; that after a few weeks he returned the mare to the defendant and demanded the harness and five dollars; that the defendant refused to deliver either, or to take back the mare, and that thereupon he turned the mare loose…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Isham, J.
The plaintiff has brought this action of trover to recover the value of a one-horse harness and five dollars in current money, which was given by him, then and still a minor, to the defendant in exchange for a mare. The plaintiff has offered to return the property he received, and has disaffirmed the contract, and has now brought this action to recover the value of the property which he gave on that exchange. The county court allowed a recovery for the harness, but disallowed the five dollars in money. *270No exception having been taken by the…
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