Goodrum v. Grimes
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Replevin, by a mortgagee of certain articles of personal property under a mortgage given by Patrick Grimes, of whose estate the defendant was administrator, to secure the payment of certain notes. Writ dated April 21, 1900. The trial, in the Superior Court before Stevens, J;, took the course stated in the opinion; and a verdict was entered for the defendant in the sum of $688 in the manner there described. The plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The action is replevin for goods which had been mortgaged to the plaintiff by the defendant’s intestate. It was committed to a jury who after retiring returned into court with two written verdicts, one for the plaintiff in the sum of $500, the other for the defendant in the sum of $638. The verdicts were in the usual way passed to the presiding judge, who after examining them returned to the jury the verdict in favor of the plaintiff, gave further instructions and again sent them out to consider further, the judge retaining the verdict in favor of the defendant. After some time the jury again…
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