French v. Hall
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Trover for a sulky. It appeared in evidence that the sulky formerly belonged to one William Pope, of Bellows Falls, in Vermont, and was there used by him, and known as his property. On the 2d of May, 1837, Pope sold it to the plaintiff, at Keene, in this state, where the plaintiff resides; and the plaintiff paid him the value of it, procured repairs to be made on it, and used and let it with his other carriages, he being the keeper of a livery stable.
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Trover for a sulky. It appeared in evidence that the sulky formerly belonged to one William Pope, of Bellows Falls, in Vermont, and was there used by him, and known as his property. On the 2d of May, 1837, Pope sold it to the plaintiff, at Keene, in this state, where the plaintiff resides; and the plaintiff paid him the value of it, procured repairs to be made on it, and used and let it with his other carriages, he being the keeper of a livery stable. The latter part of June following, Pope hired the sulky of the plaintiff, to go to Bellows Palls, and return the next week. The day after he…
1Opinion of the CourtPaeker, C. J.
It is undoubtedly true, that the regularity of the proceedings, by which the sulky was attached and sold as the property of Pope, is to be tried and determined by the laws of Vermont. The attachment and sale took place within that jurisdiction, the property being found there at the time. It was thus properly subject to the laws there existing ; and even if the same course had not been there resorted to, in order to sell and apply the property in discharge of the debt, as would have been requisite to effect the same purpose here, we are not, for that cause, to hold the proceeding void, if the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Glen v. HodgesNew York Supreme Court · 1812
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