Swift v. Barnum
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of trover, tried before the jury at Fairfield, February terra, 1855. The defendant pleaded the general issue, with notice of special matter justifying the taking, to be given in evidence. Upon the trial, it was admitted that the defendant, as a deputy of the sheriff of the county of Fairfield, had attached the goods described in the plaintiffs’ declaration, as the property of Harvey Brisco, in the manner set forth in the notice, annexed to his plea.
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This was an action of trover, tried before the jury at Fairfield, February terra, 1855. The defendant pleaded the general issue, with notice of special matter justifying the taking, to be given in evidence. Upon the trial, it was admitted that the defendant, as a deputy of the sheriff of the county of Fairfield, had attached the goods described in the plaintiffs’ declaration, as the property of Harvey Brisco, in the manner set forth in the notice, annexed to his plea. The plaintiffs, in support of their title to the goods, introduced evidence to prove, that among other kinds of business, they…
1Opinion of the CourtSanford, J.
This is a motion for a new trial, complaining of the charge of the court to the jury.
The plaintiffs, residing in New York, delivered a number of hat-bodies and a quantity of fur to one Brisco, to be manufactured into’1 hats for the plaintiffs, (Brisco finding the *527trimmings,) for which manufacture and trimmings the plaintiffs agreed to pajr Brisco ten dollars per dozen, upon the delivery of the hats in New York,—the making being estimated at six dollars, and the trimmings at four dollars per dozen, and the value of the finished hats being twenty-four or twenty-five dollars per dozen.
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