Huntington v. McMahon
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Proceedings for a contempt, in the District Court of Litchfield County, before Fyler, J. Certain liquors had been seized and condemned in the town of Winchester, by proceedings before a justice of the peace, under the 5th section of the act with regard to intoxicating liquors.
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Proceedings for a contempt, in the District Court of Litchfield County, before Fyler, J. Certain liquors had been seized and condemned in the town of Winchester, by proceedings before a justice of the peace, under the 5th section of the act with regard to intoxicating liquors. Prom this judgment John H. McMahon and Peter W. Wren, who claimed to own as partners a portion of the liquors and had appeared and been heard before the justice as such claimants, appealed to the District Court. After this appeal was taken and before the session of the appellate court, McMahon and Wren replevied the…
1Opinion of the Court
Carpenter, J,
The facts of this case are briefly these: Certain liquors were seized with a view to condemnation under the statute. Two of the respondents, McMahon and Wren, appeared before the magistrate and claimed the liquors, and, being unsuccessful, appealed to the District Court. After the appeal, and before the session of the appel late court, they obtained from one of the other respondents, who was a magistrate, a writ of replevin, by virtue of which • another respondent, who was an officer, took the liquors by force from the officer in whose custody they were and delivered them to the…
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