McKinstry v. Collins
Supreme Court of Vermont
Case ror an assault upon the plaintive’s wire. Plea, the general issue, with notice of special matter in justification. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1903, Washington County, Stafford, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for- plaintiff. The defendants excepted. It appeared that some time in the fall of 1896 defendant ■Collins, in company with Lovell, came to- the plaintiff’s home.
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Case ror an assault upon the plaintive’s wire. Plea, the general issue, with notice of special matter in justification. Trial by jury at the March Term, 1903, Washington County, Stafford, J., presiding. Verdict and judgment for- plaintiff. The defendants excepted. It appeared that some time in the fall of 1896 defendant ■Collins, in company with Lovell, came to- the plaintiff’s home. Collins was an officer and had a writ of replevin wherein he was commanded to replevy a certain colt then in the possessipn •of the plaintiff. The plaintiff’s evidence tended to show that Collins did not reveal…
1Opinion of the CourtStart, J.
The action is for the recovery of damages for an alleged assault upon the plaintiff’s wife, which it is claimed caused her death. The defendants, among other things, justified under a replevin writ. The amended bill of exceptions, which was properly substituted for the one first filed, did not require the defendants to- furnish a transcript of the record referred to the original bill of exceptions, and there was no occasion for their doing so.
The defendants asked a witness who- was present at the time the child was born, what was said when Mr. McKinstry was in the room, in relation to' the…
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