Parker v. Crittenden
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Replevin for a back attached by the defendants in the hands of the plaintiff as the property of one Barrows; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and tried on an avowry of the defendants, the issue being closed to the court, before Sanford, J. The court found the following facts :— . The hack mentioned in the plaintiff’s writ was, in February 1867, the property of Sherman A. Barrows, who at that time was the owner and keeper of a livery stable in New Haven.
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Replevin for a back attached by the defendants in the hands of the plaintiff as the property of one Barrows; brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County, and tried on an avowry of the defendants, the issue being closed to the court, before Sanford, J. The court found the following facts :— . The hack mentioned in the plaintiff’s writ was, in February 1867, the property of Sherman A. Barrows, who at that time was the owner and keeper of a livery stable in New Haven. Barrows was at that time indebted to one George B. Bates, and owed other parties, including the defendants, his…
1Opinion of the CourtSeymour, J.
It is agreed that the plaintiff is the bond fide purchaser of the property in dispute. He bought it from the fraudulent grantee in whose possession it then was, in the presence of the fraudulent grantor, who assented to the sale and assisted in making it. The defendants had not then made their attachment, and they therefore then had no interest whatever in the property, legal or equitable. The whole title was then either in Penn or in Barrows. If in the former the plaintiff takes that title by direct purchase ; if in the latter he takes that title by estoppel, for surely upon the facts stated…
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