Hyatt v. Bell
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Hempstead Circuit Court; Joel D. Conway, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. In July, 1902, W. J. Old being the owner of certain machinery and property used in printing, to-wit: one Chandler & Price jobber, one Chandler & Price paper cutter, three double-type stands and one cabinet, filled with job and display type, and two hundred and fifty pounds of body type, he sold the same to PI. A. Turner for the sum of four hundred dollars.
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Appeal from Hempstead Circuit Court; Joel D. Conway, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. In July, 1902, W. J. Old being the owner of certain machinery and property used in printing, to-wit: one Chandler & Price jobber, one Chandler & Price paper cutter, three double-type stands and one cabinet, filled with job and display type, and two hundred and fifty pounds of body type, he sold the same to PI. A. Turner for the sum of four hundred dollars. Turner executed a note for that sum to Old payable on or before November, 1903, with interest at ten per cent. This note contained the following provision:…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts.) This is an appeal by Hyatt from a judgment in an action of replevin brought by Bell against him in the Hempstead Circuit Court for the recovery of a “jobber,” paper cutter, type stands and type such as is used in a printing office. The facts which are set out in the statement of facts are practically undisputed. The court in his charge to the jury told them in .substance to find for the defendant “unless,” to quote the language of the instruction, “you believe that, when Hill sold to the Bank of Ozan the note and mortgage executed by Turner tó Hill he…
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