Irish v. Cloyes
Supreme Court of Vermont
This being an action of trover for numerous articles of personal property, the only questions decided are upon the charge of the court below in relation -to the evidence necessary to warrant the jury in finding a conversion in the case.
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This being an action of trover for numerous articles of personal property, the only questions decided are upon the charge of the court below in relation -to the evidence necessary to warrant the jury in finding a conversion in the case. The verdict was for the defendants, and the plaintiff among other things, excepted to the charge, in that part where the jury are instructed, that where a stranger applied to the defendants for their consent to purchase certain property of plaintiff and the defendants refused to give this consent, saying that they had already purchased the property of…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfiuld, J.
In relation to the first point decided by the court here, the question arose in reference to certain “mill logs,” which were on the land, conveyed by plaintiff to defendants. There was evidence in the case, that the plaintiff had also sold this lumber to defendants. But this point being controverted, it became necessary to inquire whether any sufficient evidence ofa conversion by defendants had been given. The only evidence relied upon was, that after the conveyance of the land, some stranger-wishing to purchase the logs, applied to…
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