Meade v. Smith
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action of trover for certain cows, oxen, carts and other articles of personal property, against Ebenezer Smith, Jacob Dayton, jr. and David D. Husted.
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This was an action of trover for certain cows, oxen, carts and other articles of personal property, against Ebenezer Smith, Jacob Dayton, jr. and David D. Husted. The cause was tried, on the general issue, pleaded by the defendants severally, at Fairfield, April adjourned term, 1844, before Storrs, J. The plaintiff claimed title to the property described in the declaration, by virtue of a bill of sale thereof, made and delivered to him, in the city of New-York, on the 3d of November, 1842, at ½ past 9 o’clock, A. M., by Esbon Husted, of Greenwich, in this state. The plaintiff claimed to have…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
The defendant first claims, on the motion in arrest, that the court below ought to have admitted the testimony of the jurors in the case, in support of the allegations in said motion. This point was settled, on great deliberation, in The State v. Freeman, 5 Conn. R. 348. That was a capital case, where there were the strongest motives to adopt the most liberal rule which could be tolerated. But it was adopted as an universal rule, that where it is sought to set aside a verdict for the mistake or misconduct of the jurors, those jurors are not competent witnesses to prove such mistake or…
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