Hatstat v. Blakeslee
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Replevin to recover personal property unlawfully detained; brought to the Court of Common Pleas in New Haven County, and tried on an issue closed to the court, before Stoddard, J. Pacts found and the finding made a part of the record. Judgment for the defendant, and motion in error by the plaintiff. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
The plaintiff having a debt against Charles D. Whaples took a wagon in payment, removed it to his own premises, and kept it there for five days, when he returned it to the possession of Whaples to be painted and repaired, who retained it in the same place and condition as before and at the time of the purchase, though without using it, for six months, and until it was attached by the defendant as the property of Whaples, to secure a debt in his favor against Whaples and another. The defendant had no knowledge that the plaintiff had. ever owned the wagon.
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