Walsh v. Brown
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort for unlawfully entering the plaintiff’s lunch room in a store numbered 374 on Hanover Street in Boston, seizing and taking possession of that place of business of the plaintiff and preventing the plaintiff from conducting business there for about eighteen hours, with a second count for the conversion of certain goods of the plaintiff.
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Tort for unlawfully entering the plaintiff’s lunch room in a store numbered 374 on Hanover Street in Boston, seizing and taking possession of that place of business of the plaintiff and preventing the plaintiff from conducting business there for about eighteen hours, with a second count for the conversion of certain goods of the plaintiff. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated J une 8, 1903. On appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Wait, J. It appeared that the defendant was a constable in the city of Boston, and that on May 22,1903, he attached one of the…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The defendant, a constable in the city of Boston, received a writ sued out by one Mahoney against Susan E. Walsh, the plaintiff in this action. The writ instructed him to attach the goods and estate of the said Walsh, to the amount of $110. Armed with this document he proceeded to a lunch room owned and kept by her but under the immediate management of her husband, and, as stated in his return, attached “ certain goods and chattels . . . placed a keeper over said property and took from cash register $12.93.” Neither in his *319return nor in the evidence at this trial is there any moré specific…
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