Hanson v. Herrick
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort against the sheriff of Essex for the conversion of a stock of hatter’s goods by one of his deputies. Writ dated February 14, 1868. The defendant justified under an attachment of the property by the deputy, on the writ, dated Novem ber 11, 1867, and returnable at December term 1867 of the superior court for Essex, in an action of Simon KIous against liouis D. Gallison and Alton M. Stratton, copartners under the firm of Gallison & Stratton; and alleged that, on the…
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Tort against the sheriff of Essex for the conversion of a stock of hatter’s goods by one of his deputies. Writ dated February 14, 1868. The defendant justified under an attachment of the property by the deputy, on the writ, dated Novem ber 11, 1867, and returnable at December term 1867 of the superior court for Essex, in an action of Simon KIous against liouis D. Gallison and Alton M. Stratton, copartners under the firm of Gallison & Stratton; and alleged that, on the petition of the firm, they were, on December 31,1867, declared bankrupts by the district court of the United States, under the…
1Opinion of the CourtColt, J.
The objection that the certificate upon the back of the mortgage was not competent evidence to prove that the mortgage was duly recorded is not now relied upon. And the request for instructions relating to the duty of the plaintiff to ooint out and identify the goods claimed by him is also waived.
The plaintiff’s -demand upon the attaching officer was sufficient in form and substance. It was, in the words of the stab *326ute, a just and true account of the debt or demand for which the property was liable to him. Gen. Sts. c. 123, § 63. Evidence of the actual consideration of the mortgage note was…
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