Hume v. Tufts

Trespass de bonis asportatis by Tufts against Hume. Pleas, 1, The general issue; 2, Justification under certain executions against one Jackson directed to the defendant as a constable, by virtue of which, he seized the goods and chattels named in the declaration as the property of Jackson; and that the property so seized was Jackson’s and not the plaintiff’s. Replication, alleging the property to be in the plaintiff and .not in Jackson; upon which there was an issue joined. Verdict and judgment for the plaintiff.

*145It appeared in evidence that Tufts, being the general owner of the property in…