Tower v. Haslam
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On motion and exceptions. This was ail action of trover for a buckboard. Date of writ, October 10, 1890. The plaintiff’s title was under a Holmes note from Thomas T. Dorr, dated June 25, 1887, recorded July 29, 1887. The defendant’s title was under a sale and delivery of the buckboard from Dorr to one Penney and from Penney to the defendant. It was not disputed that the defendant purchased in good faith.
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On motion and exceptions. This was ail action of trover for a buckboard. Date of writ, October 10, 1890. The plaintiff’s title was under a Holmes note from Thomas T. Dorr, dated June 25, 1887, recorded July 29, 1887. The defendant’s title was under a sale and delivery of the buckboard from Dorr to one Penney and from Penney to the defendant. It was not disputed that the defendant purchased in good faith. From the bill of exceptions it appears : 1. The defendant contended that the sale and delivery of •the buckboard from Dorr to Penney was prior to the date of •the record of the plaintiff’s…
1Opinion of the CourtVirgin, J.
Trover for a buckboard delivered by the plaintiff on June 25, 1887, to one Dorr and taking back therefor a Holmes note, of the same date, for $61, on fourteen months, duly recorded on July 29, 1887.
Within a few weeks (exact date in dispute) after his conditional purchase, Dorr exchanged the buckboard for a "cut-under” with one Penney, who, in September following, sold it to the defendant, who in June, 1888 — before the commencement of this action — sold it to one Smith.
The defense was put upon three grounds :
(1.) That the defendant’s vendor (Penney) purchased the buckboard some time before…
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