Coolidge v. Ayers
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trov®r for a piano. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1903, Rutland County, Munson, J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff on special verdicts. The defendant excepted. This case came to the county court on appeal from the city court for the city of Rutland. The opinion states the case. The trustee cannot follow the property into- the hands of a bona fide purchaser. Collier Bankr. (3 ed.) 357"369; In Re Mullins, 4 Am.
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Trov®r for a piano. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury at the September Term, 1903, Rutland County, Munson, J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff on special verdicts. The defendant excepted. This case came to the county court on appeal from the city court for the city of Rutland. The opinion states the case. The trustee cannot follow the property into- the hands of a bona fide purchaser. Collier Bankr. (3 ed.) 357"369; In Re Mullins, 4 Am. B. Rep. 224; Brandenburg Bankr. (2 ed.) 73i- It follows from the special verdict that the McPhail Piano C’o\ never owned the piano1, so the…
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, J.
In the fall of 1899, Marvin McClure caused the piano in question, which he then owned, to be placed in the house of the defendant. The piano1 was not then sold to the defenant, but McClure left it there in his possession for trial, hoping to1 sell it h> him. In Mlarch, 1900, McClure, being largely indebted to the McPhail Piano Company, was requested by the manager of that company to turn out to it to apply on his indebtedness to the company sundry pianos in possession of various persons, of which pianos was the one *407in controversy. The testimony was conflicting as to whether in fact the pianos…
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- Sherman v. Champlain Transportation Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1858
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