Ames v. McCamber
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Three actions of tort for the conversion of horses and other personal property. Answer, in each case, a. general denial, and that McCamber, a deputy sheriff of the county of Bennington in the State of Vermont, attached the property in question as the property of A. Haskins & Co., and sold it on executions duly issued on judgments obtained in a court of that state by the other defendants against such firm.
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Three actions of tort for the conversion of horses and other personal property. Answer, in each case, a. general denial, and that McCamber, a deputy sheriff of the county of Bennington in the State of Vermont, attached the property in question as the property of A. Haskins & Co., and sold it on executions duly issued on judgments obtained in a court of that state by the other defendants against such firm. The cases were tried together in the Superior Court, before Brigham, C. J., who found the following facts: The defendant McCamber, a deputy sheriff of the county of Bennington, in the State…
1Opinion of the CourtEndicott, J.
1. The contract, under which the plaintiff claimed to be owner of the property, described in his declarations, was executed, delivered and recorded in Vermont. The property was in that state at the time and afterward. Having been attached there by the defendants, the rights of the parties are. to be settled by the law of Vermont.
2. We are not called upon to determine whether it was competent for the defendants to prove the law of Vermont under their answers ; no such question having been raised at the trial, or ruled upon by the presiding judge. The only exception of the plaintiff, on this…
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