Hull v. Hull
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Replevin for six colts; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, and tried before Qoiuell, J., who found the following facts:— The plaintiff is the sister of the wife of Rev. William H. H. Murray. The defendant is the trustee of his insolvent estate.
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Replevin for six colts; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, and tried before Qoiuell, J., who found the following facts:— The plaintiff is the sister of the wife of Rev. William H. H. Murray. The defendant is the trustee of his insolvent estate. In i j-ib or ib69 the plaintiff was employed by Mr. Murray as superintendent, book-keeper and cashier of his stock farm at Guilford in this state, the farm consisting of about three hundred acres with three dwellings and large and commodious bams and stables. Erom the commencement of such service down to the institution of…
1Opinion of the CourtLoomis, J.
The controversy in this case has reference to the ownership of six colts, the progeny of two brood mares, which the plaintiff, some ten years prior to this suit, purchased in Boston of the Rev. William H. H. Murray. The *255contract of sale provided that the plaintiff might take the mares to Murray’s farm in this state, of which she was and liad been for several years the superintendent, and there keep them as breeding mares; and all the colts thereafter foaled from them, though sired by Murray’s stallions, were to be the exclusive property of the plaintiff.
No attempt has been made by Murray’s…
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