Taffe v. Warnick

An action of trover for a carding machine. Plea not guilty, a jury trial, and a verdict and judgment for the defendant. The Court, on motion of the defendant, charged the jury, “that if they believed,, from the evidence, that the carding machine in question was situated in a building erected for the purpose of carrying on carding, so as to be ready to be put in operation and to do business, although it was in no manner fastened or fixed to the building, except as it stood upon the floor in its usual place of operation, — it was not liable to be levied on and sold as personal property, by…