Buckmaster v. Mower
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover for five cases of cassimers. Plea, the general issue, and trial hy the jury, September Term, 1845, — Williams, Ch. J., pre» siding. . On trial the plaintiff gave in evidence a contract in writing, exe* cuted by the plaintiff and the defendant Ford, dated September 23, 1841, by which it was agreed, that the plaintiff would deliver to Ford, at his factory in Bridgewater, from time to time as might be required in order to keep the factory in operation, a specified…
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Trover for five cases of cassimers. Plea, the general issue, and trial hy the jury, September Term, 1845, — Williams, Ch. J., pre» siding. . On trial the plaintiff gave in evidence a contract in writing, exe* cuted by the plaintiff and the defendant Ford, dated September 23, 1841, by which it was agreed, that the plaintiff would deliver to Ford, at his factory in Bridgewater, from time to time as might be required in order to keep the factory in operation, a specified quantity of wool; that Ford would manufacture the wool into cassimers as soon as possible after manufacturing wool then on…
1Opinion of the Court
*208The opinion of the court was delivered by
Hall, J.
The first and principal question in the case is, whether the plaintiff had such a property in the goods, as to entitle him to sustain the action. This depends upon the construction of the written contract entered into between the plaintiff and Ford for the manufacture of the cloth. It is insisted on the part of the defendants, that the contract is evidence, either of a sale of the wool by the plaintiff to Ford, or of a joint ownership in the plaintiff and Ford of the cloth, after its manufacture; and that, in either view of the case, trover…
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