Blake v. White
Superior Court of New Hampshire
Trespass, for taking two French horses, property of the plaintiff, Oliver Blake, on the 10th of January, 1839, valued at $60 each. Plea, the general issue, with a brief statement, alleging an attachment of the horses on a writ in favor of John Perley vs. James L. Blake, as the property of James L. Blake, and a subsequent sale of the horses on an execution recovered in the suit.
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Trespass, for taking two French horses, property of the plaintiff, Oliver Blake, on the 10th of January, 1839, valued at $60 each. Plea, the general issue, with a brief statement, alleging an attachment of the horses on a writ in favor of John Perley vs. James L. Blake, as the property of James L. Blake, and a subsequent sale of the horses on an execution recovered in the suit. The plaintiff, in order to show the property of the horses in himself, proved that James L. Blake, who is a brother of the plaintiff, received one hundred dollars of the plaintiff, for the purpose of purchasing two…
1Opinion of the CourtUpham, J.
This was trespass, for taking two horses, alleged to be the property of the plaintiff. The defendant denied the ownership of the property in the plaintiff, and contended that the horses were the property of one James L. Blake, a brother of the plaintiff, as whose they were attached on mesne process, and sold on execution.
Evidence was offered that the horses were purchased by James L. Blake, with money furnished to him for that purpose by Oliver Blake, the plaintiff, and' that the horses, after the purchase, were appraised to Oliver, in payment of the money advanced by him. It was contended,…
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