Cavanaugh v. Marble
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action of replevin for three horses, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Litchfield County, Curtis, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiffs.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The defendant, as appears by the finding, claimed to hold the horses in question as deputy-sheriff, upon a writ of attachment against J. R. Lucier and others, doing business as Lucier’s Minstrels. The minstrels had purchased the horses of the plaintiffs in Manchester, New Hampshire, upon a conditional bill of sale, under which the title was not to pass until the purchase price, evidenced by a note for $742.50, was fully paid in weekly instalments of $50 each.
Three weeks after this purchase the plaintiffs sold to the same parties two other horses, for $500, and received in payment a note' for…
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