Goodsell v. Olmstead
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Writ op error to reverse a decree of the Court of Common. Pleas of New Haven County, perpetually enjoining the plaintiff from collecting a judgment rendered in his favor against' the defendant by a justice of the peace; brought to this court. The defendant pleaded that there was no error. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
William W. Olmstead, the defendant in error, brought a petition to the Court of Common Pleas liolden at New Haven on the first Monday of September, 1872, in which he alleged that George W. Goodsell, the plaintiff in error, had obtained a judgment against him for the sum of $68.01. damages and $4.63 costs of suit, and that execution had issued; that the judgment was unjust and erroneous, and was for a sum nearly three times as large as the amount of his actual- indebtedness to Goodsell; and that it was procured by Goodsell by fraud and deception, and in violation of certain agreements made by…
2Cited by1 opinion
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