Charles Towne & Co. v. Wiley
Supreme Court of Vermont
Trover, for a horse. Plea/the general issue, and trial by the jury, September Term, 1850, — Kellogg, J., presiding. The plaintiffs were livery stable keepers at Bellows Falls, and or the thirteenth of July, 1349, the defendant, then an infant of the age of twenty years, hired of them a horse to drive from Bellows Falls to Brattleboro, a distance of twenty three miles, and to return ■the same day..
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Trover, for a horse. Plea/the general issue, and trial by the jury, September Term, 1850, — Kellogg, J., presiding. The plaintiffs were livery stable keepers at Bellows Falls, and or the thirteenth of July, 1349, the defendant, then an infant of the age of twenty years, hired of them a horse to drive from Bellows Falls to Brattleboro, a distance of twenty three miles, and to return ■the same day.. The defendant drove the mare to Brattleboro’; but, instead of returning to Bellows Falls by any of the usual and direct routes, he returned by a very circuitous route, thereby increasing the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Redfield, J.
This is an action on the case, in trover, for the conversion of a certain horse. The facts which appeared on the trial were, that the defendant, being an infant of twenty years, hired of the plaintiffs, who were livery stable keepers at Bellows Falls, the horse in question, to go to Brattleboro’ and. back the same day. He went to Brattleboro’ and returned by a circuitous route, nearly doubling the distance, which, in a direct course, is twenty three miles, at about eight o’clock in the evening went to a house in Westminster, and remained…
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