Farnsworth v. Lowery
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition to establish the truth of exceptions alleged by the petitioners in fourteen actions severally brought by them against James G. Lowery and John Bleakie, and disallowed by Bacon, J., who presided at the trial of the cases in the Superior Court. The petition was referred by this court to a commissioner, to hear the parties and report his findings.
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Petition to establish the truth of exceptions alleged by the petitioners in fourteen actions severally brought by them against James G. Lowery and John Bleakie, and disallowed by Bacon, J., who presided at the trial of the cases in the Superior Court. The petition was referred by this court to a commissioner, to hear the parties and report his findings. The commissioner reported that the bill of exceptions as tendered by the petitioners would be conformable to the truth, if certain words were added, and certain other words were stricken out. The bill of exceptions so altered was as follows,…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
We think the substantial truth of the exceptions presented has been established, and that the matters which the commissioner has found should be stricken out or inserted aré immaterial. The exceptions proved do not in our view differ materially from the exceptions which the presiding justice was willing to allow.
The first ruling excepted to is, “ that the plaintiffs could recover on their declarations only for the glass and the lettering thereon.” The declarations were for the conversion of “a permanent sign bearing the name of the plaintiff, placed in an advertising case in the post-office…
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