Chillingworth v. Eastern Tinware Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action in the nature of trespass de bonis asportatis, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; judgment of non-suit rendered which the court upon motion declined to set aside, and the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Action in the nature of trespass de bonis asportatis, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the court, George W. Wheeler, J.; judgment of non-suit rendered which the court upon motion declined to set aside, and the plaintiff appealed for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion. I. A nonsuit should not be granted, if there is any evidence which, favorably construed, would support a judgment in favor of the plaintiff. 16 Amer. & Eng. Ency. of Law, 741, 742; Spensley v. Lancashire Ins. Co., 54 Wis., 433, 439; Clemence v.…
1Opinion of the CourtToukance, J.
This is an action to recover damages for the conversion of personal property to which the plaintiff claimed title under an execution sale. The defense was a general denial.
On the trial below the plaintiff claimed that the property described in the complaint was formerly the property of the United States Stamping Company, a manufacturing corporation organized under the laws of the State of New York, and carrying on business in Portland in this State; that in November, 1888, one Samuel H. Smith brought a suit against said Stamping Company in the Superior Court for Middlesex County in this…
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