Dibble v. Morris
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action of trespass, tried to the jury, upon the general issue, with notice of the special matters of defence hereinafter stated. The plaintiff brought the suit as trustee of Ezra B. Beebe, an assigning debtor, to recover for the seizure and conversion, by the defendant, of a yoke of cattle, alleged in the plaintiff’s declaration to have been in his possession as such trustee at the time of the seizure.
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Action of trespass, tried to the jury, upon the general issue, with notice of the special matters of defence hereinafter stated. The plaintiff brought the suit as trustee of Ezra B. Beebe, an assigning debtor, to recover for the seizure and conversion, by the defendant, of a yoke of cattle, alleged in the plaintiff’s declaration to have been in his possession as such trustee at the time of the seizure. The value of the property was laid at $150. The defendant claimed that the property in question was, at the time of the taking thereof, the property of Beebe'; and that it was taken by the…
1Opinion of the Court
Sanford, .1.
The first question presented on this motion regards the admissibility of the copies of record offered in evidence by the plaintiff. The objection was, as the judge remarked, “ a technical one,” and came “ too late to be received, with much favor,” and if the plaintiff had not agreed to the reading of the copies subject to future objection, the judge would have been justified in deciding that the objection came too late to be listened to at all, or in postponing the trial to Enable the plaintiff to procure the due authentication of the copies. But no motion for a postponement of…
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