Hildreth v. Aldrich

This is an action of trespass de bonis asportatis, the property alleged to have been taken being a horse, wagon, and harness. Tbe defendant pleaded in justification that the property was taken under a writ of attachment in an action brought by him against the plaintiff in the Court of Common Pleas. The replication was that the defendant fraudulently procured the property to be brought into the State from Massachusetts so that he could attach it. In trial to the jury the plaintiff called one Ebenezer Allen as a witness for the purpose of proving that the defendant had gotten him to send a Mr.…