Koster v. Merritt
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Trespass for taking a sloop. Defence, that it was attached by the defendants as the property of the plaintiff’s yendors. Tried in the superior court, on an issue closed to the court, before Carpenter, Jr Judgment for the plaintiff and motion for a new trial by the defendants.' The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDutton, J.
It appears from the record in .this case, that Hubbard & Dayton of Greenwich, in this state, who were *247the owners of a sloop, which they had run between Greenwich and New York, sold it in New York to the plaintiff, a resident of New York, for its fulLvalue, part of the consideration being a debt which they owed the plaintiff, and the residue the assumption by the plaintiff of certain debts due from Hubbard & Dayton. The plaintiff took formal possession of the sloop, but immediately engaged Hubbard, who had been acting as her captain, to remain in the same situation, notified the crew of the…
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