Bartlett v. Newton

Defendant’s exceptions, to the admission of evidence, a particular instruction given to the jury (not perfected as hereafter noted), and the refusal of fifteen requested instructions, must all fail if the evidence challenged was properly admitted. That evidence related to the claim of the plaintiff that by prearrangement with the defendant he was entitled to pay a note, secured by chattel mortgage, by yarding a stated amount of cordwood instead of in money.

The action is trover. The taking of the property alleged to have been converted is not denied by the defendant, who justifies his taking…