Bicknell v. Trickey
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report from Nisi Prius, Tenney, J. presiding. Trover for 6000 mill logs. The defendants pleaded the general issue severally. Evidence both documentary and oral was introduced by the respective parties, though much of it was objected to. The case was then withdrawn from the jury and submitted to the Court to be decided upon such of the evidence as was legally admissible, with power to draw inferences of fact as a jury might do.
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On Report from Nisi Prius, Tenney, J. presiding. Trover for 6000 mill logs. The defendants pleaded the general issue severally. Evidence both documentary and oral was introduced by the respective parties, though much of it was objected to. The case was then withdrawn from the jury and submitted to the Court to be decided upon such of the evidence as was legally admissible, with power to draw inferences of fact as a jury might do. The decision does not indicate what part of the evidence, if any, was inadmissible. But that which was rightfully admitted appears, in the estimation of the Court,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court, Shepley, C. J., Wells, Rice, Hathaway and Appleton, J. J., was drawn up by
Appleton, J.
The plaintiff, a deputy sheriff, having Avrits in his hands against John P. Decker & al., attached or claimed that he attached, on the sixth of Dec. 1849, five thousand logs in the Penobscot river, opposite the head of Indian OldtoAvn islands, upon which the several plaintiffs in those writs had a lien by virtue of “ an Act giving laborers on lumber a lien thereon,” approA ed Aug. 10, 1848. He Avent on to the logs, marked some of them “ attached Dec. sixth, 1849, by A. H. Bicknell,…
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