Yale v. Saunders
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover. The declaration contained two counts, alledging in the first the conversion of sixty sheep, and in the second the conversion of several horses, &e. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury. Testimony was introduced by both parties in reference to the alledged conversion, and exceptions were taken by the plaintiff to the charge of the court upon that point; but, the verdict being for the plaintiff, that part need not be detailed.
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Trover. The declaration contained two counts, alledging in the first the conversion of sixty sheep, and in the second the conversion of several horses, &e. Plea, the general issue, and trial by jury. Testimony was introduced by both parties in reference to the alledged conversion, and exceptions were taken by the plaintiff to the charge of the court upon that point; but, the verdict being for the plaintiff, that part need not be detailed. The evidence tended to show that the property in question was attached as the property of the plaintiff, and.put on to the farm of the defendant Michael…
1Opinion of the Court
'The opinion of the court was delivered by
Williams, Ch. J.
This case comes before us on exceptions by the plaintiff to the charge of the court. We have not thought it ¡necessary ,to say any thing as to the first point made, that is, whether *246the court charged correctly on the subject of conversion. The jury have found that there was a conversion; — whether, therefore, the court were correct or incorrect in the doctrine laid down on that subject, the jury have found that fact; and this was all the plaintiff could have expected, if the charge had been as he requested.
The jury probably found that…
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