Fox v. Hartford & West Hartford Horse Railroad
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the amount of eighteen coupons attached to bonds of the defendant, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the court, Peck, Associate Judge ; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court.
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Action to recover the amount of eighteen coupons attached to bonds of the defendant, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the court, Peck, Associate Judge ; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings of the court. The coupons in suit were attached to six bonds, three coupons to each bond; one of the three coupons upon each bond maturing February 1st, 1895, one August 1st, 1895, and one on February 1st, 1896; and the form of each coupon was as follows:— Coupon. The Plartford & West Hartford…
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, J.
In his reasons of appeal the defendant claims, in substance, that the trial court erred: (1) in holding that the title to the coupons passed to the plaintiff with the bonds; (2) in excluding certain testimony; (3) in holding that the plaintiff ’ did not take the overdue coupons *7subject to the “ arrangement ” between Henney and the defendant ; (4) in allowing any interest upon the coupons.
These claims will be considered in the order stated. We are of opinion that there was no error in holding, upon the facts found, that the plaintiff, as the undisputed owner of the bonds, also owned the…
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