Humphrey v. Wheeler
Supreme Court of Vermont
Tort for Conversion. Plea, the general issue. Trial by the Orleans County Municipal Court, H. B. Cushman, Judge. Judgment, on facts found by the court, for plaintiff. Defendant excepted. The plaintiff was a constable and brought the action to recover for the alleged conversion of personal property, claimed to have been attached,by him, on a writ placed in his hands for service and • described in his return upon the writ. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtWatson, C. J.
The findings show that at the time of thd attachment the defendant owned and had on his farm in Glover seven cows, fifty-two bunches of clapboards, several bushel baskets, several Fairbanks’ platform scales, two hundred and eighty-seven cedar posts, and about three hundred bushels of potatoes. The attachment was of five cows, forty-two bunches of clapboards, one bushel basket, one Fairbanks’ platform scales, *49two hundred cedar posts, and one hundred and fifty bushels of potatoes. Applying the officer’s return to the actual state of defendant’s property, the attachment as to these articles or…
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- Town of Ripton v. Town of BrandonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1907
- Barron v. SmithSupreme Court of Vermont · 1890
- Bucklin v. CramptonSupreme Court of Vermont · 1848
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