Carrano v. Hutt
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action in the nature of trover for the alleged conversion of a quantity of potatoes and the bags containing them, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Bennett, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs for $1,700, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtWheelee, J.
The plaintiffs sue the defendant to recover damages for a certain lot of potatoes and bags, attached by him as deputy sheriff under a lawful writ of attachment.
The issues raised under the pleadings were as to the ownership of these goods: whether in the plaintiffs, or in Pasquale DiPalma as the defendant claimed.
The plaintiffs claimed and offered evidence to prove that they employed Pasquale DiPalma to purchase potatoes for them on Long Island upon a commission, of five cents a bushel, the potatoes to be transported to New Haven in a boat belonging to Andrea DiPalma; that Pasquale purchased…
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