Patterson v. Smith
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury, Orleans County, September Term, 1893, Taft, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendants excepted.
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Trover. Plea, the general issue. Trial by jury, Orleans County, September Term, 1893, Taft, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff. The defendants excepted. At the January Term, 1894, of the Supreme Court, when the case was called for hearing on the exceptions, proceedings, were stayed on a motion setting up the filing of petitions in insolvency by the defendants after the rendering of judgment in the County Court. 66 Vt. 633. Thereafter the case was continued from term to term to the January Term, 1900, when a hearing was had upon questions raised and decided. 72 Vt. 288. In…
1Opinion of the CourtMunson, J.
This suit is brought by an officer to recover damages for the removal of property upon which he had placed an attachment. The attachment was of the lumber in a certain mill-yard, and was made by copy in June, 1887. There was a material difference between the witnesses of the plaintiff and those of the defendants as to the amount of lumber in the yard at the time of the attachment. The defendants offered to show that the stock in the yard in the seasons of 1888 and 1889 corresponded substantially with what the plaintiff’s witnesses gave as the stock on hand at the time of the attachment; and…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Whitney Wagon Works v. MooreSupreme Court of Vermont · 1888
- Paterson v. SmithSupreme Court of Vermont · 1900